Jingyi (Wendy) Wu

I am a Research Assistant in the Balmus Lab, with a focus on DNA mismatch repair in Huntington’s disease.

I graduated from UCL with first-class honours in Biomedical Sciences. My final-year project explored calcium signalling and oxidative stress in Vici syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. I first joined the Balmus Lab as a summer placement student, investigating mitochondrial DNA depletion in POLG-mutant neurons. I then undertook an MPhil at Cambridge, studying mitochondrial signalling and neuronal metabolism during a critical period of development in Drosophila melanogaster.

My research interests lie in age-associated disorders, genome instability and mitochondrial biology.