Joyce Tung

Who is Joyce Tung?

Joyce Tung graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biological

Sciences and a minor in Computer Science. She then entered the Program

in Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco,

where she pursued a Ph.D. in Genetics. Her thesis work was done in the

lab of Renee Reijo Pera, where she studied the function of the DAZ gene

family in mouse and human germ cell development. After leaving UCSF,

Dr. Tung performed postdoctoral research in the lab of Greg Barsh at

Stanford University. Her work focused on understanding the function of

the SLC24A5 gene in human melanogenesis and pigmentation.