Ciyang received her Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During college, she worked on identifying the role of anticipatory UPR-triggered calcium in transcription regulation in ERα+ breast cancer utilizing approaches including ChIP. As a graduate student, she takes advantage of a comprehensive metabolomics dataset derived from brain tissues and uses metabolites as quantitative traits to decipher their roles in Alzheimer’s disease