What is your favourite enzyme, and why?

That would be most of the eukaryotic kinases. Structurally, they look like a pac-man. Functionally, we have over 500 different types of kinases and regulate all aspects of our biology. Some of my favourite kinases are PKA (I learned everything about kinases from PKA and I also met the scientist, Susan Taylor from UC San Diego, who solved its structure) and NMR family of kinases (my PhD work).

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What is your favourite book?

Anything from Haruki Murakami and Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

What is the most recent book you’ve read?

Blindness by Jose Saramago

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What is your favourite amino acid, and why?

Tryptophan, most wholesome from the look of it.

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What are some of your hobbies?

Exercising, reading, and watching Japanese & Chinese Animes.

 

What is your dream vacation?

Taking a sabbatical in Iceland or New Zealand.

 

What is the coolest project you’ve ever worked on?

I summarized all of the papers published by Dr. Maud Menten.

 

What’s the biggest mistake you’ve made in lab?

I once spilled radioactive ATP contaminated water everywhere.

 

Do you have any advice or anything else you want to say?

If you can see, then look. If you look, then observe.