Lab Member

Wei-Yun (Winnie) Wholey

Ph.D. Student

E-Mail: weiyun@umich.edu

Winnie joined the lab in summer 2007 and is interested in studying of oxidative stress. She currently works on anti-oxidant response and its role in bacterial colonization using Vibrio cholerae as a model system. To examine the colonization capability of wild type V. cholerae and the mutants in vivo, she uses C. elegans and mouse as colonization models. She also examines the genetic regulations and major factors activated during colonization-induced oxidative stress.

Winnie received her Master degree in Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was working with Dr. Jeff Blanchard and studied the global expression dynamics in response to perturbation by oxygen radicals in E. coli using microarray experiments and bioinformatics tools. She has a strong passion and history for studying the oxidative stress in bacteria.

Winnie came to the US after 17-years of life in Taipei, Taiwan. Although she grows up in a big city, she is definitely not a city-girl. Winnie likes cooking, gardening, comic drawing, and doing home improvements (yeah, that’s right! she likes to build). Besides scientific life, she also likes to travel when she has spare time.