Lauren Lui

Education/degrees:

BA, Mathematical Biology, UC-Davis
MS, PhD, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, UC-Santa Cruz

Previous positions held: 

• Postdoc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Project Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Current position or career path:

Dr. Lui is a Research Scientist at LBNL and uses environmental sequencing and computational biology methods to study the impact of microbial species on global element cycling and their feedback response to environmental change. Currently she studies sites in the San Francisco Estuary, Baltic Sea, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She gets excited about how we can understand the response of microbes to environmental change just from the information contained in their genomes.

Advice for current graduate students and postdocs:

Remember to consider rapport and support when choosing an advisor/lab, not just the science; I appreciate this quote by Richard Feynman, because it encapsulates how many failed experiments scientists go through before they can make discoveries: “We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”