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Outside of work, he enjoys playing badminton, cooking and spending time with his wife and twin boys.
`,memberName:`Hoong Chuin Lim`,memberTitle:`Principal Investigator`,mediaSrc:`/en-us/-/media/nebus/page-images/research-labs/lim-lab/employees/hoong_lim.jpg?rev=4605062b401949098ccd2268555d6820&sc_lang=en-us&hash=F91F99055F2678E9B923DD3061BD77AA`,memberEducation:`B.S./M.S., Brandeis University, USA, 2007
Ph.D., Yale University, USA, 2014
`,memberLink:{text:`linkedin.com/hoonglim`,url:`https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoonglim/`,target:`_blank`}},{memberDescription:`Marina is from Ottawa, Canada and first fell in love with science in high school when a science teacher taught her how to light her fingers on fire (safely of course). She did her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto majoring in Biochemistry where a passion for research was ignited. She went on to do a PhD in Biological Sciences at Columbia University where she was lured into the fascinating realm of Microbiology by the pretty colours of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. After five years studying how various endogenous natural products affect the bacterium’s respiratory strategies, she is excited to be joining NEB and the Lim lab to do a postdoctoral fellowship studying diversity generating retroelements.

Outside of lab, Marina likes to try her hand at building furniture, knitting, and travelling whenever possible.
`,memberName:`Marina Smiley`,memberTitle:`Postdoctoral Fellow`,mediaSrc:`https://media.neb.com/asset/91c726f2-248e-413a-a5f0-c129b795727a/thumbnail/webimage-Marina_Siley_Lab`,memberEducation:`B.Sc., University of Toronto, Canada, 2016
Ph.D., Columbia University, USA, 2023`,memberLink:{text:`www.linkedin.com/marinasmiley`,url:`https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinasmiley/`,target:``}},{memberDescription:`Apurva grew up in sunny Los Angeles, California, and was passionate about science from an early age. She loves uncovering the mechanism behind how things work, especially when it comes to host-pathogen interactions. She did her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, and enjoyed researching in the lab of Britt Glaunsinger, where she biochemically evaluated viral proteins from Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus. She then did her graduate work in the lab of Philip Kranzusch at Harvard working on anti-phage proteins in bacteria. She is excited to be joining NEB working in the lab of Hoong Lim studying novel mechanisms of DNA integration.
Outside of lab, Apurva enjoys painting, reading, and getting outside to play some tennis.

`,memberName:`Apurva Govande`,memberTitle:`Postdoctoral Fellow`,mediaSrc:`/en-us/-/media/nebus/page-images/research-labs/lim-lab/employees/apurva_govande.jpg?rev=4cf8e6caec074b5ab90550a7cf3b382d&sc_lang=en-us&hash=28D7E6FB771CF4C2FA210D08B8EF1DA0`,memberEducation:`B.A. University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2016
Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, USA, 2021
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