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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 a professor of chemistry & chemical biology at University of Oxford.[2]
Associate professor Yimon Aye | |
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ရည်မွန်အေး | |
 Yimon Aye in 2018 | |
| Born | 12 July 1980 (age 44) |
| 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 | University of Oxford |
| Main interests | Synthetic Methodology Chemical Biology Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology Cell Biology |
| Website | https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/people/yimon-aye |
Career
editAye 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] From August 2018 to August 2024 she was an associate professor of chemistry at EPFL.[2]
Since September 2024 she's leading the Aye Lab at University of Oxford.[8]
Personal life
editYimon 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "15 new professors appointed at the two Federal Institutes of Technology". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ admin (2018-01-12). "Interview with Dr.Yimon Aye Assistant Professor of Cornell University". Myanmar Insider. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- ^ a b "2017 WCC Rising Star Dr. Yimon Aye – Corn... | ACS Network". communities.acs.org. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- ^ "JoAnne Stubbe Research Group - MIT". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Yimon Aye". Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ^ "ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုးကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်း ဝန်ကြီးဟောင်းများပိုင်ဆိုင်သည့် ကုမ္ပဏီများ". Myanmar NOW (in Burmese). 23 September 2020. Retrieved 2022-02-17.