Yu Xuan Lin

Yu Xuan is a second year MDPhD student interested in studying somewhere at the intersection of structure-function, mechanistic cell biology, and systems biology.

She received her Bachelor's in Chemistry at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in 2021. She spent the first two years of undergrad at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO, designing inhibitors for the ZIKA virus using computational chemistry, specifically molecular dynamics simulations. She then transferred to UCSD in pursuit of research opportunities. She spent the next three years in the Lab of Andres Leschziner and Samara Reck Peterson using Cryo-Electron Microscopy to probe Parkinson's Disease pathology.

Outside of science and medicine, she prefers to spend her time on the couch with her two dogs. On the occasion, you can also expect to find her at various coffee shops around New Haven.