{"id":11170,"date":"2021-12-06T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2021-12-06T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:32:57","slug":"shannon-tsai-phd-appointed-assistant-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/shannon-tsai-phd-appointed-assistant-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Tsai, PhD Appointed Assistant Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11110 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/11\/Yihsuan-S-Tsai.png\" alt=\"Yihsuan S Tsai\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" \/>Dr. Yihsuan (Shannon) Tsai was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective October 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tsai earned her B.S. from the National Yang Ming University in Taiwan in 2007. She then joined the lab of Dr. David Robinson Goodlett at the University of Washington as a Research Assistant from 2007 \u2013 2010. Dr. Tsai came to 黑料网 as a graduate student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) curriculum where she earned her PhD for her thesis work titled \u201cTranscriptome-wide study of alternative splicing across multiple cancer types\u201d in the labs of Dr. Zefeng Wang and Dr. Shawn Gomez in 2015. 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