Yi-Chun Huang is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and his research focuses on understanding the roles played by chromatin in maintaining genome stability during replication. His research interests in the field of biology include everything from basic molecular and cell biology to epigenetics, genome engineering, and synthetic biology. Before joining the Jacob Lab at Yale, Yi-Chun worked first at National Taiwan University (Zimmerli Lab) studying plant innate immunity and then at Osaka University (Kakimoto Lab) where he studied how small peptides regulate stem cell identity with the support of a JSSO scholarship. Although primarily trained as a geneticist, Yi-Chun likes to learn and use new techniques to answer specific scientific questions. In addition to spending time working on his biological projects, Yi-Chun enjoys reading widely about science and helping colleagues in the lab.