Dr Jeongyoon (Joy) Choi

Joy Choi
Associate Research Fellow

Jeongyoon (Joy) Choi is an associate research fellow at Wycliffe Hall and a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. She completed her BSc at KAIST, South Korea and her PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany. She arrived in Oxford in 2017 and was a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow and a junior research fellow at Linacre College before joining Wycliffe Hall. Her current research focuses on directly visualising X-chromosome inactivation in female mammalian cells.

Research Areas

Cryogenic electron microscopy
X-chromosome inactivation
Epigenetics

Publications

Choi, J., Bachmann, A. L., Tauscher, K., Benda, C., Fierz, B., & Muller, J. (2017). DNA binding by PHF1 prolongs PRC2 residence time on chromatin and thereby promotes H3K27 methylation. Nat Struct Mol Biol, 24(12)