Curriculum Vitae

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3144 Natural Science I, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3900, (949) 824-9562, mengjueh(at)uci(dot)edu

This is an eletro microscopic photo of my platelet shot by my wife in 1994.

Meng-Juei Hsieh, a.k.a.: MJ




EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine, USA
Program: Informatics & Computer Sciences(2004-)
Program: Molecular Biology, Genetics & Biochemistry(2002)
National Tsing-Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan; Master of Science; July 1998
Program: Biomedicine, Life Science College
Thesis Advisor: Jenn-Kang Hwang
Thesis Title: The Prediction of Main Chain Conformation of Protein Using Artificial Neural Network
National Tsing-Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan; Bachelor of Science; July 1996
Department: Life Science Department, Life Science College
Thesis Advisor: Hon-Ju Liu
Thesis Title: Porcine DNA Topoisomerase II Gene Identification and Expression in E. Coli and Yeast
SCIENTIFIC SKILLS
Molecular Biology
Gene identification and over-expression of cloned genes in E. Coli and yeast
Molecular Modelling
InsightII / Quanta / VMD working experience including docking and structrure prediction
RasMol / Chemscape Chime expertise
Molecular dynamics programming
Bioinformatics
GCG / BLAST / GenBank working experience
Sequence alignment and database programming
Biomolecular NMR
1-D, 2-D, 3-D NMR experiment and data processing experience
Side chain and sequnce assignment of proteins using heteronuclear NMR
COMPUTER SKILLS
General Skills
Installation and maintenance of PC hardware, PC cluster, Macintosh, LAN, DOS and Windows
Programming Skills
C, FORTRAN 77 / 90, make, diff, patch, Borland C++ Builder, CVS, Perl, TCL/TK, PHP, SQL, InterBase database, mySQL database and shell-scripts
Unix Skills
System administration, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, SunOS, Solaris, Irix, Digital Unix, MkLinux, LinuxPPC, DNS, NIS, WWW server, FTP server, SAMBA server, NFS service, SSH and network security
Software Porting on Linux / FreeBSD
RasMol, VMD, BABEL, NMRpipe, X-plor and CNS
SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCES
2000-2001 Research Associate with Professor Ta-Hsien Lin, NMR Laboratory, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Working on 1D / 2D-NMR experiments, 3D-NMR data processing and 4D-NMR processing technique development
1995-1998 Graduate Research Assistant with Professor Jenn-Kang Hwang, Molecular Modelling Laboratory, Life Science College, National Tsing-Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan
Working on theoretical computation of enzymatic chemical reaction and protein folding; the artificial neural network study on peptide conformation
1994-1995 Part-time staff at Laboratory Animal Care, Life Science College, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
Administration of facility, animal health care and experiment preparation
1993-1995 Undergraduate Research Assistant for Professor Hon-Ju Liu, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Life Science College, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
Working for researching project about gene identification, over-expression of DNA topoisomerase II and Beta G protein in yeast system
1992-1992 Intern at General Biological Corp., HsinChu, Taiwan
Manufacturing and developing hepatitis A, C diagnostic kits
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
1996-1997 Teaching Assistant, Bioinformatics, Life Science College, National Tsing-Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan
COMPUTER EXPERIENCES
1998-2000 Corporal, The Taiwanese Air Force
Construction of new online transportation database
1998-1998 Administrator, Life Science College, National Tsing-Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan
Administration for bioinformatics center sites
1995-0000 System Operator, Life Science College, National Tsing-Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan
Administration for life science bulletin board system
1995-0000 System Operator, Feminism Network
Administrator for feminism bulletin boaard system
1995-1998 Administrator, Life Science College, National Tsing-Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan
System and network management of UNIX systems, http proxy and www contents
1995-1995 Webmaster team member, National Center of High-performance Computing, HsinChu, Taiwan
Working on the symposium web page contents of HPC ASIA 95
1993-1995Volunteer Administrator, Center of Computer and Communication, National Tsing-Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan
Administration and content maintainence of GOPHER service for Life Science College