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Yimon Aye (Burmese: ရည်မွန်အေး; born 12 July 1980[1] in Burma) is an American chemist and molecular biologist. Currently she is an associate professor of chemistry at EPFL.[2]

Career

Aye spent her early life in Burma. She completed her undergraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Oxford and obtained her master's degree in 2004.[3] She joined Harvard University to study synthetic organic chemistry with David A. Evans, achieving her PhD in 2009.[4] She then moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation fellow to work with JoAnne Stubbe. There she performed research into the regulatory mechanisms of ribonucleotide reductase.[5] In 2012, she started as an assistant professor at Cornell University, where she began her work on redox-dependent cell signaling and genome maintenance pathways. During this time, she developed REX technologies, new methods to facilitate the study of unconventional electrophile-regulated stress signaling paradigms.[6][7] REX technologies were one of the first approaches to forge direct links between upstream protein alteration by a reactive molecule and downstream responses.[4]

In 2018, she was appointed as an associate professor of chemistry at EPFL.[2] Since August 2018, she has been leading the Laboratory of Electrophiles And Genome Operation (LEAGO) of the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC) at EPFL.[8]

Personal life

Yimon Aye's father Soe Thein is a former Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Navy.[9] She has one brother, Aye Chan (b. 1973) and one sister, Thida Aye (b. 1973).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Council Decision 2012/98/CFSP of 17 February 2012 amending Decision 2010/232/CFSP renewing restrictive measures against Burma/Myanmar". Official Journal of the European Union. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  2. ^ a b "15 new professors appointed at the two Federal Institutes of Technology". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  3. ^ admin (2018-01-12). "Interview with Dr.Yimon Aye Assistant Professor of Cornell University". Myanmar Insider. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  4. ^ a b "2017 WCC Rising Star Dr. Yimon Aye – Corn... | ACS Network". communities.acs.org. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  5. ^ "JoAnne Stubbe Research Group - MIT". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  6. ^ Poganik, Jesse R.; Long, Marcus J. C.; Aye, Yimon (2019-02-11). "Interrogating Precision Electrophile Signaling". Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 44 (4): 380–381. doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2019.01.006. ISSN 0968-0004. PMC 6462755. PMID 30765181.
  7. ^ Long, Marcus J.C.; Urul, Daniel A.; Aye, Yimon (2020), "REX technologies for profiling and decoding the electrophile signaling axes mediated by Rosetta Stone proteins", Chemical and Synthetic Biology Approaches to Understand Cellular Functions - Part C, Methods in Enzymology, vol. 633, Elsevier, pp. 203–230, doi:10.1016/bs.mie.2019.02.039, ISBN 978-0-12-819128-6, PMC 7027669, PMID 32046846
  8. ^ "Laboratory of electrophiles and genome operation". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  9. ^ "ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုးကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်း ဝန်ကြီးဟောင်းများပိုင်ဆိုင်သည့် ကုမ္ပဏီများ". Myanmar NOW (in Burmese). 23 September 2020. Retrieved 2022-02-17.

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