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Ellen Chu

Ellen Chu

Education: B.S. Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, Davis, 2020

Joined Lab: January 2023

Outside of lab: I like watching anime and going on hikes. During the winter, I also snowboard in Tahoe whenever I get the chance!

Previous Research Experience: I actually did research in Dr. Sheila David’s lab during my undergraduate experience! I explored the target recognition mechanism of MutY using 2-Br-2′-deoxyinosine oligonucleotide analogs during my undergraduate career. It paved the way for my interest in research as well as graduate school.

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  • A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry March 27, 2025
    Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used to model disease spread and studying how animals move through geographic regions.
  • Melting ice, more rain drive Southern Ocean cooling March 27, 2025
    Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.
  • Mini rolling robot takes virtual biopsies March 26, 2025
    A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body, that could revolutionize early cancer detection, has been developed by researchers. The team say this is the first time it has been possible to generate high-resolution three-dimensional ultrasound images taken from a probe deep inside the gastrointestinal tract, or gut.
  • Earliest days of Earth's formation March 26, 2025
    New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets. Establishing a direct link between the Earth's interior dynamics occurring within the first 100 million years of its history and its present-day structure, the work […]
  • A cleaner future for tires: Scientists pioneer chemical process to repurpose rubber waste March 26, 2025
    Every year, millions of tires end up in landfills, creating an environmental crisis with far-reaching consequences. In the United States alone, over 274 million tires were scrapped in 2021, with nearly a fifth of them being discarded into landfills. A study has now pioneered a technique for breaking down this rubber waste and transforming it […]

Contact:

Dr. Sheila S. David
ssdavid@ucdavis.edu
(530)-752-4280

Department of Chemistry
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616