Trena is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Nanyang Technological University, where she studied alternative splicing in myeloid cells. Under Professor Mart Lamers, her research focuses on utilising organoids to study virology. Her PhD aims to develop advanced lung organoid models to compare the infection mechanisms of high-pathogenicity coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2 and low-pathogenicity coronaviruses such as NL-63, aligning with her interest in viral-host interactions and disease progression mechanisms.