Yin-Chen Hsieh

Yin is a highly motivated mathematician/biologist turned bioin-
formatician keen to explore new fields, particularly of marine biodiversity and environmental conservation. She specializes in protein bioinformatics, and as a UAF postdoctoral fellow is working in the evolution of cold-tolerance in marine invertebrates, through studying the production and distribution of ice-binding proteins in Arctic and subarctic intertidal invertebrates. Yin is dedicated to bringing informatics and data management across inter-
disciplinary boundaries in a teamwork context and has a passion for tackling complex biological problems and turning them into algorithmically computable solutions.

Yin grew up dividing her time between Taiwan and Northern California, and spent much of her childhood roaming around the mountains and rivers in these two places. There, she developed a keen interest in biology at all levels, from molecules to organisms, particularly the role of evolution in bringing about the biodiversity present today. Yet her favorite subject in school remained mathematics. She moved after high school to the Netherlands to pursue mathematics for her undergrad, and discovered the field of bioinformatics as a way to combine biology and her more technical maths/computer science interests. For her Masters and PhD, she focused on protein bioinformatics, and brought this focus into plant ribosome physiology, environmental microbiology, and human protein biology, supported by roles in both research and teaching. Now living in Fairbanks, Yin is a fan of all things outdoors.

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