The Lucks Lab is excited to welcome its newest lab member, Yuntong Zou! Yuntong earned a B.S. in Veterinary Medicine from Nanjing Agricultural University, including a year as an exchange student at Aarhus University in Denmark, followed by work as a research assistant at McGill University and wildlife conservation volunteer experience in Australia. She went on to earn a M.S. in Quantitative and Systems Biology here at Northwestern University, and is now part of the Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences (IBiS) Ph.D. program.
Yuntong’s past research covered host–pathogen interactions, virology/immunology, protein biochemistry, structural assays, and quantitative biology. At Northwestern, she hopes to blend both her biological and computational expertise to construct predictive modeling frameworks for riboswitch function, using biophysical insights and machine learning to advance our ability to predict and design functional RNAs.
Outside the lab, you can often find her knitting, skiing, folding origami, creating paper sculptures, or hanging out with her cat. Fun fact: she has lived in six different countries and is also a part-time fortune teller and astrologer! We’re thrilled to have you, Yuntong, and can’t wait to see the contributions you’ll make.
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