I studied at the University of East Anglia, England, where I completed my BSc in Biomedicine (2016) and Ph.D. in Biomolecular Sciences (2021) under the mentorship of Dr Mark Williams. For my Ph.D., I investigated the mechanism and significance of intracellular calcium signals in colonic epithelial cells. During this period, I utilized epi-fluorescent and confocal laser scanning microscopy, real-time live imaging using calcium-sensitive fluorescent dyes, and HILIC-MS/MS. After that, I worked in Hong Kong as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of Oncology and Immunology under the mentorship of Professor Tracy McGaha, wherein I utilized flow cytometry and cell culture to investigate the involvement of macrophages within the tumor microenvironment in cholangiocarcinoma. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at CIMR, Beijing, under the mentorship of Professor Yuval Rinkevich.
Pelaez-Llaneza, N., Jones, V., Kam, C., Lee, A., Parris, A., Tattan, S., . . . Williams, M. (2022, January 4). Guardian crypt-base-goblet-cells protect the human colonic stem cell niche by triggering cholinergic calcium signal-dependent MUC2 secretion and luminal flushing. Retrieved from bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.04.474646v1
Lee, A. (2021, April 6). Deciphering the Mechanism and Roles of Muscarinic and Purinergic Calcium Signals in the Human Colonic Epithelium. Retrieved from UEA Digital Repository: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/84498/