Brad Johnson, MD PhD (2004-2008)
With Brad Johnson, I've completed projects that explored protein expression changes during senescence and developing evidence for the in vivo role of g-quadruplexes in yeast.
With Brad Johnson, I've completed projects that explored protein expression changes during senescence and developing evidence for the in vivo role of g-quadruplexes in yeast.
I began working with Li-San Wang during the g-quadruplex project. During the summer of 2007, we invested SVD of microarrays and distance correction in phylogenetic trees. This work was a part of the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Summer Internship Program, a 8-week program run by the Penn Genomics Institute. We are currently working with Dr. Johnson to further explore the role of quadruplexes. We are especially interested in the conservation of their functions.
Starting in the summer of 2007, I've been working in Christopher Murray's lab developing tools to extend Materials Studio to help us make and mold particles of various shapes. I also wrote a Perl/C++ program that computes X-ray diffraction patterns. More recently, I have begun cooking PbSe nanodots in the hopes of coercing them into forming larger structures through oriented attachment.
During my first year of graduate school, I had the opporunity to on projects in stellar laboratories of Manolis Kellis, Angela DePace with Martha Bulyk, Alan Saghatelian, Gavin MacBeath, and Tim Mitchison with Hanno and Judith Steen, before joining the lab of Vamsi Moohta.
For my PhD thesis, I've joined the lab of Vamsi Moohta where I use next generation sequencing methods in order to discover the cause of rare mitocondrial genetic diseases.