Michelle is a 4th year Chemistry and Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Major at UCLA. She discovered her passion for medicinal chemistry while working as a pharmacy technician at a local pharmacy during high school in Vancouver, Canada. In the Conway Group, she works on small molecule synthesis for the inhibition of Leishmania and Schistosoma Bromodomains. Before joining the Conway Group, she was in Professor Guillaume Chanfreau’s group in the same department conducting research on RNA processing and splicing fidelity. Michelle has also conducted research at the University of Tokyo with Professor Keisuke Goda in platelet aggregate classification methods through flow cytometry and machine learning. She is currently interning at Eli Lilly in Research & Development. Michelle hopes to pursue graduate school in organic/medicinal chemistry, however, she is always keen to learn new chemistry and biology lab techniques. In Michelle’s free time (from study breaks and downtime in the lab), she enjoys reading Japanese and Korean comics and listening to K-Pop. She also snowboards and golfs when possible.