Meg Shieh

Meg is a Ph.D. candidate and NIH F31 Kirschstein-NRSA Predoctoral Fellow in Professor Ming Xian’s lab at Brown University. Her research focuses on the development of detection methods and chemical tools to study reactive sulfur species that play critical regulatory roles in human health and disease. She earned her B.S. in chemistry from Duke University, studying mosquito immunology in Professor Emily Derbyshire’s lab. She later became a lab manager in Professor Dan Neafsey’s lab at Harvard, developing multiple high-throughput sequencing protocols for mosquito, malaria, and COVID-19 research. As part of her graduate studies, Meg was also a visiting researcher in Professor Takaaki Akaike’s lab at Tohoku University.