Dr. Yael David is an Associate Member of the Chemical Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She received her B.S. in Biology from SUNY Stony Brook, as a Summa Cum Laude where she was awarded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellowship to perform research in molecular neurobiology. Yael subsequently moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where she was trained as a biochemist and cell biologist, applying her knowledge to study the mechanism and regulation of polyubiquitination. Realizing the power of interdisciplinary research, she moved to the Chemistry Department at Princeton University where she combined her experience with Prof. Tom Muir’s expertise in peptide chemistry to develop novel tools towards the mechanistic investigation of histone post-translational modifications including their site-specific manipulation in live cells.