Charlene Chua

Final Year Undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University Singapore| Biological Sciences

Singapore, Singapore

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Experience

  • Laboratory Intern at A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 · 4 mos

    Internship at A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore • Optimising assays for high-throughput single-cell isolation and recovery of microbes (bacteria, fungi, bacteriophages) from different sample types • Preparing of samples for sequencing (library preparation for Illumina and Nanopore sequencing) • Assisting with literature review searches

  • Undergraduate Researcher at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
    Sep 2023 - Jun 2024 · 10 mos

    Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Koh Cheng Gee Understanding the functions and structures of circular dorsal ruffles • Cultivated NIH3T3 cells to analyze the influence of POPX2 on circular dorsal ruffles dynamics • Employed live cell imaging and immunofluorescence techniques to investigate the co-localization of POPX2 with circular dorsal ruffle • Conducted Western blotting analysis to evaluate the impact of POPX2 on the expression levels of MLC2 and pMLC2 proteins