Pao-chen Li
Pao-Chen Li is a PhD candidate in Molecular and Computational Biology program in the category of Molecular Biology. She is interested in understanding how cells maintain their gene integrity. Her research focuses on the interconnection between duplication and separation of the cell’s chromosomes by using genetic and molecular approaches.
Pao-Chen received her Master degree in Life Science from Tsing-Hua University and B.S. from National Taiwan University. She worked as a technician in National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan and intern in MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston before joined USC. She was the TA in Advanced Molecular Biology in 2007 and 2008 at USC and led the discussion in the class. As a researcher and teacher, her goal is to bridge the class materials to the real research and to cultivate independent and critical thinking in the students. She received the University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2009.