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]
Associate professor Yimon Aye | |
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ရည်မွန်အေး | |
Born | 12 July 1980 | (age 43)
Citizenship | US-American |
Known for | Electrophile signaling Nucleotide signaling pathways |
Relatives | Soe Thein (father) |
Academic background | |
Education | Chemistry |
Alma mater | University of Oxford Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | David A. Evans |
Other advisors | JoAnne Stubbe |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Biology |
Sub-discipline | Molecular Biology |
Institutions | EPFL |
Main interests | Synthetic Methodology Chemical Biology Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology Cell Biology |
Website | https://leago.epfl.ch |
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]
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]