2009 ASBMB Award: Jet Phey Lim

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne

Jet Phey began her tertiary education in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. Armed with a Diploma with Merit in Biotechnology, she started working as a research assistant for Dr Jackson Zhao in GLAXO-IMCB, Singapore. Her studies on G-protein-coupled receptor kinase-interacting protein 1 (GIT1) resulted in a publication in Molecular Cell in 2005. After five years as a research assistant, Jet Phey left familiar shores to enter into the final year leading to a BSc (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) at the University of Melbourne. It was during this year in Australia that she was given the opportunity to work as a winter student with Professor Paul Gleeson in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne, studying Golgi membrane trafficking. The following semester saw her as a summer student with Dr David Huang, WEHI, in the field of apoptosis. After completing her BSc, she returned to Paul Gleeson’s lab as an Honours student. With support from an Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and a Melbourne International Research Scholarship, she is currently pursuing her PhD in the same lab, investigating the role of sorting nexins in membrane trafficking and macropinocytosis, especially the impact of sorting nexin 5 in antigen presentation by macrophages. Part of this work was awarded a student poster prize at the 32nd Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function and was later published in BMC Cell Biology in 2008. The ASBMB Fellowship will allow Jet Phey to attend the Dynamic Cell conference in Edinburgh and the EMBO Meeting in Amsterdam, where she will present her findings. She hopes to gain novel ideas and feedback on her work through the conferences and lab visits.

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