I’m excited to share that I'll be joining the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at @RutgersU as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in January 2026! Thrilled to launch my independent lab and be part of this vibrant research community 💖 #newPI

I’ll be recruiting motivated and passionate people at all levels. If our lab’s research mission interests you, come build something new with us! Feel free to contact me at dc.chung(at)rutgers(dot)edu 📨

Also, big thanks to @LabShulman, Steven Boeynaems, Hyun Kyoung Lee, Joanna Jankowsky, @Bajikarlab, @LasagnaLab, @KlischTiemo, @JessicaCButts, @RyanDhindsa, @debo_Astrocyte, @DJ_Choi_Glia, and many others for their helpful advice throughout this roller coaster of a job market 🎢

I can’t emphasize enough how grateful I am for my postdoc mentor, Dr. Huda Zoghbi, and my PhD mentor, Dr. Leonard Petrucelli, for their immense guidance and support during my time in their labs. I hope I can pay it forward by nurturing the next generation of scientists 🧑‍🔬

I’m also pleased to be part of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute @BHI_Rutgers and the Rutgers Krieger Klein Alzheimer's Research Center @Rutgers_ADRD ! Looking forward to working with so many outstanding researchers at Rutgers ✨

Our lab will explore how to protect our brain from the abnormal protein aggregation (like tau!) and related pathology in hopes of finding creative and effective ways to combat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease 🧠

I am pleased to share our recent interdisciplinary studies seeking to understand how changes in MECP2 levels cause the severe childhood neurological disorders Rett and MECP2 duplication syndrome! https://t.co/POhkGct0tC https://t.co/Sv9BxH7ZqE https://t.co/mrst1UPTai

Attempting to slowly migrate to the @bluesky side of the online scientific community 🦋 see you all there! My handle is same as here @dchloechung

Excited to share our latest preprint where we describe how diverse ancestral representation in sequencing databases improves genetic intolerance estimates! https://t.co/NmMXIFGsOQ

Huda Zoghbi says that mentorship enables her to multiply the impact of her science 100x over. The HHMI Investigator at @bcmhouston hopes this ripple effect is felt in the future of treatment & prevention of diseases like #Rett syndrome and #Alzheimer’s. https://t.co/m8JN1UMXyn

Halloween Costume...molecular biology edition!

Cold-emailing potential postdoc advisors is a hugely successful strategy! Here is the exact e-mail I sent back in the day (& it worked) - feel free to use as a template:

We're recruiting! Join our lab at Baylor College of Medicine to explore the functional role of repetitive DNA, the final frontier of the human genome. We work on rare neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Postdoc and tech positions available. https://t.co/QLJPyolMYu 1/7

Also was honored to spot the celebrity #SfNpigeon - or as someone said, the official Dr. SfN “Tweets” 🐦

Had an amazing time sharing my research and meeting old and new friends at #SfN24 in Chicago 🧠 what a brainy week!!

Omg!! 한강 is one of my favorite Korean writers- I read almost all of her work. So happy for her ❤️📚 and glad that many of her books got translated in the past 10+ years for non-Korean readers!

Job ad for research tech or lab manager is up! https://t.co/lHbdCGeeaj Experience with mouse handling and mouse colony management will be given preference. If you think glia are cool and want to learn about glial epigenetics, while setting up a new lab, join us! #newPI #glia

My #SfN24 presentation is this morning, see you all soon 😆

Always thankful for @_BrightFocus for supporting my research, connecting me with other amazing scientists, and letting us take fun selfies 😂❤️🧠

And this was my fortune from the cookie… does it mean that I can go crash any #SfN24 socials 😂?? @SfNtweets