Departments: CMMTenure

Short Biography: Dr. Kimberly Tsui received her B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA in 2014 and her PhD in Genetics from Stanford University in 2019. She then joined the lab of Andrew Dillin at UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow, where she studied how the ER stress response influences cell surface glycosylation. …

We are interested in how unicellular eukaryote parasites exploit glycosylation to conduct their business, whether they accomplish this by modifying their own glycosylation, or employ glycan recognition to access their hosts. Our present attention is directed to the evolution and function of parasite glycosyltransferases, utilizing biochemistry in conjunction with gene editing and glycomic profiling to …