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Taiwan

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Neuroscience PhD | UC San Diego and Salk Institute | Aging, Neurodegeneration, and Stem Cell Biology

Profile Summary

I am a PhD-trained neuroscientist with 10+ years of research experience at world-renowned institutions, including the Salk Institute and UC San Diego, and in collaboration with Caltech. I have expertise in molecular aging, stem cell biology, and tissue regeneration, and offer freelance consulting in scientific writing, data interpretation, and research strategy. Select previous projects: Understand whole-organism metabolic flux in C. elegans through Nano-SIMS imaging in collaboration with Caltech. Assess alterations in chromatin organization in Alzheimer's patient-derived neurons produced by direct conversion of fibroblasts. Elucidated the role of the proteasome in muscle development. Technical expertise: NGS techniques (RNAseq, CUT&RUN, ChIPseq) Stem cell culture and differentiation Academic and technical writing

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Cell Biology
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Chromatin
• ☆ Epigenetics
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ Gene Expression Analysis
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ ChIP-Seq
• ☆ Stem Cell Research
• ☆ Neuroscience
• ☆ Molecular Neuroscience
• ☆ Neurobiology
• ☆ Cell Culture
• ☆ Cell Aging
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols
• ☆ Science Communication

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing

Research Scientific and Technical Research

Work Experience

Graduate Researcher

UC San Diego

August 2018 - May 2025

Undergraduate Researcher/ Technician

University of Virginia

October 2014 - May 2018

Research Assistant

University of Würzburg

May 2016 - August 2016

Education

Graduate Student (Neuroscience)

University of California San Diego

September 2018 - Present

B.S. (Biology)

University of Virginia

August 2014 - May 2018

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Kenneth D Kuhn, Ukrae H Cho, Martin W Hetzer (2025). PSME3 regulates migration and differentiation of myoblasts . Life Science Alliance.

(2020). Molecular dissection of TNFR-TNFα bidirectional signaling reveals both cooperative and antagonistic interactions with p75 neurotrophic factor receptor in axon patterning . Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.

Beer, K.B., Rivas-Castillo, J., Kuhn, K., Fazeli, G., Karmann, B., Nance, J.F., Stigloher, C., Wehman, A.M.(2018). Extracellular vesicle budding is inhibited by redundant regulators of TAT-5 flippase localization and phospholipid asymmetry . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115. (6). p. E1127-E1136.

PREPRINT

Kenneth D Kuhn, Ukrae H Cho, Martin Hetzer (2025). PSME3 Regulates Migration and Differentiation of Myoblasts .