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Ming-Jiun (Brad) Yu
Two words most often came up when people mentioned Ming-Jiun's
name: badminton and mosquito. For him, playing badminton
is just for pleasure, but for mosquito, it is, ahem,
pure business.
 Ming-Jiun's
research at Cornell set out to understand the mechanisms
and regulation of mosquito diuresis phenomenon. Being
a productive Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical
Sciences from 1998-2004, Ming-Jiun's work has formulated
more than five peer-reviewed papers and numerous presentations
at national and international conferences. During his
stay at Cornell, Ming-Jiun also married his wife Yu-Chen
Huang, and together the couple started their family
with son Ezra Yi-Chen and daughter-to-come Ezrin Yi-Cing.
Business aside, he also won championship in the badminton
contests held by the CTSA for two consecutive years.
CTSA prepared some questions for this surely-will-be-missed
alumnus to be :
Q: What will be missed after leaving Cornell?
A: Things that the family cannot forget are indeed the
snow of New York and the beautiful fall of Ithaca.
Q: What won't?
A: Things that are horribly scarce are Taiwan food.
Fortunately, there are some local Chinese buffets to
alleviate the symptoms of nostalgia.
Q: Where will you be after
Cornell?
A: After graduation, I am moving to Bethesda, Maryland
to work on salt and water metabolism in mammalian kidneys
at the National Institute of Health.
Q: Advice to new comers?
A: Try your best to develop your own interest as early
as possible. The Cornell Mandarin Biology Forum (CMBF)
provides the best starting point to learn and to prepare
for your career.
More information on Brad's
research:
Personal website :
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/my43/
- YiFang Chu
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