Bio
Haoyu is the lab’s Research Teaching Specialist. For undergrad, Haoyu attended the College of Wooster, where she worked on modeling the cellular responses to undernutrition using Boolean Modelling. Her work suggested that cells stay in the senescent state instead of going into autophagy because Reactive Oxygen species (ROS) prohibit the main autophagy-related genes (Atg). During her Masters study in the Dept. of Biomedical Science at Rutgers University, she studied how loss of the L1 gene affects learning and memory skills using a model of Traumatic Brain injury in mice. Afterward, Haoyu worked in the Dr. Bhattachrya lab at Rutgers to further develop tools for the study of coral. Now she has begun in the Di Rienzi lab to further study and work on the function of intestinal hormones and their interactions with microbes.