
Joy Arakaki, M.S.
Research Associate
Joy manages all aspects of flow cytometry, cell sorting, and flow instrumentation for the Gene Editing team. Previously, she worked on cancer immunotherapy at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, high throughput immune cell signal profiling at a San Francisco Bay Area startup, and bone response to spaceflight conditions at NASA Ames Research Center. She received her M.S. in Stem Cell Biology from San Francisco State University, using hiPSCs to model impaired germ cell development, and a B.S. in Cell Biology and Religion from the University of California at San Diego.

Selected Publications
Fluorescent Gene Tagging of Transcriptionally Silent Genes in hiPSCs
Stem Cell Reports
April 4, 2019
Roberts B, Hendershott MC, Arakaki J, Gerbin KA, Malik H, Nelson A, Gehring J, Hookway C, Ludmann SA, Yang R, Haupt A, Grancharova T, Valencia V, Fuqua MA, Tucker A, Rafelski SM, Gunawardane RN
Endogenous Protein Tagging in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using CRISPR/Cas9
Jove
August 25, 2018
Haupt A, Grancharova T, Arakaki J, Fuqua MA, Roberts B, Gunawardane RN
bioRxiv
June 9, 2018
Roberts B, Arakaki J, Gerbin KA, Malik H, Nelson A, Hendershott MC, Hookway C, Ludmann SA, Mueller IA, Yang R, Rafelski SM, Gunawardane RN