Hayley Chong

Hayley Chong has eight years of work experience. Hayley began as a Student Manager at Roger's Place and Market at UCSD in 2014. In 2015, they were a Research Intern at Blood Systems Research Institute, where they over-expressed and knocked down a microRNA in T cell lines and used cell lines to study the effect of microRNA on HIV infectivity and latency reversal. Hayley was also a Technical Team Lead at Open Viral Load Team at UCSD in 2015, where they organized the design, integration, and automation of an affordable viral load testing device, as well as designed and constructed an inexpensive fluorescent imager. In 2016, they were an Undergraduate Researcher at The Scripps Research Institute, where they created macrophage cell lines and mouse lines deficient of various phospholipid proteins using both the CRISPR/Cas9 system and a retroviral infection system, and stimulated macrophage cell lines with various ligands to measure immune responses. Hayley was also a Research and Development Lead at Yonder Dynamics at UCSD in 2016. In 2017, they were a Senior Engineer and Engineer 2 - Process Development at Illumina. In 2021, they were an Engineer II at Encodia, Inc. and in 2022, they became a Senior Engineer, Instrument Development at Molecular Assemblies, Inc.

Hayley Chong attended UC San Diego from 2013 to 2017, where they earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Bioengineering.