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    Freelance Technical Writer

    + + NeuroGEARS Ltd Mar 2024 - Present + +

    + Write documentation, protocols, and tutorials to enhance user accessibility and engagement for Bonsai, an open-source software for constructing interactive systems for neuroscience experiments. +

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    Postdoctoral Associate

    The Scripps Research Institute 2019-2023

    - • Consulted on and designed, setup custom hardware/software for assaying - mice behavioral responses for independent and collaborative team - projects, leading to 1 publication in a high impact journal (Nature). + • Conducted research into the neural circuits underlying olfaction-driven social behavior in mice. +

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    + • Developed and implemented signal processing and data analysis methods for physiological signals (respiration, pupil dilation) to study state-dependent modulation of arousal. +

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    + • Setup and optimized machine learning pipelines for pose estimation and behavioral motif extraction to study postural and facial responses to olfactory stimuli.


    - • Setup new data analysis/machine learning pipelines for analyzing and - extracting insights from mice behavioral videos. + • Setup and optimized machine learning pipelines for pose estimation and behavioral motif extraction to study postural and facial responses to olfactory stimuli.


    - • Performed stereotaxic surgery for craniotomy, virus injection and fiber - photometry/optogenetics/electrode implants to monitor and manipulate invivo - neural activity in mice. + • Performed stereotaxic surgery, craniotomy, virus injections, fiber photometry, and optogenetics to monitor and manipulate neural activity, investigating the neural mechanisms underlying sexual arousal. +

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    + • Designed and consulted on custom hardware/software setups for behavior, contributing to collaborative projects and high impact publications.

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    PhD Student and Postdoctoral Fellow

    DUKE-NUS Medical School 2011-2019

    - • Utilized behavioral assays, in-situ hybridisation, drug dosing, immunohistochemstry, western blot, qPCR, confocal microscopy, - electrophysiology to investigate behavioral, molecular and cellular changes in transgenic mice models of human neuropsychiatric disorders. + • Conducted research into the mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders using environmental, cellular and transgenic mice models. +

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    + • Performed PCR, molecular cloning, HEK293 and neuronal cell culture, transient transfection, shRNA, lentivirus and AAV production to study disease mechanisms using transgene knockdown and over-expression. +

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    + • Utilized western blot, qPCR, confocal microscopy, immunohistochemstry, in-situ hybridization and electrophysiology to quantify disease phenotypes.


    - • Performed molecular cloning, tissue dissociation, primary mice neuron and hek293 cell culture, transfection and electroporation to knockdown and - overexpress transgenes to study cellular changes of transgene expression. + • Characterized behavioral abnormalities in mice models using a wide panel of behavioral assays targeting sensory and motor function, cognition, memory, social behaviors and neuropsychiatric phenotypes (anxiety/depression/schizophrenia/repetitive behaviors).


    - • Published 2 first author and 3 collaborative publications with animal/cellular models of neuropsychiatric disorders in internationally recognized - journals. + • Published 2 first author and 3 collaborative publications in high impact journals and presented at international neuroscience conferences.

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    Freelance Technical Writer

    NeuroGEARS Ltd Mar 2024 - Present

    - Write documentation, protocols, and tutorials to enhance user accessibility and engagement for Bonsai, an open-source software for constructing interactive systems for neuroscience experiments. + • Write documentation, protocols, and tutorials to enhance user accessibility and engagement for Bonsai, an open-source software for constructing interactive systems for neuroscience experiments.

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    Postdoctoral Associate


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    • Performed stereotaxic surgery, craniotomy, virus injections, fiber photometry, and optogenetics to monitor and manipulate neural activity, investigating the neural mechanisms underlying sexual arousal.