Author: Asta Dauksa

Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Excellence This fellowship is supporting me in exploring different projects in the Applied Optics Group, Schmidt Lab and expanding my multidisciplinary research skills. Currently, I am focusing on the fabrication, characterization, and integration of nanophotonic and optofluidic devices with applications in biosensors.

Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Excellence I have been a rotation student on the CB3 track for my fellowship year. I have been fortunate to work with the McKinnie and Lokey labs thus far. In the McKinnie Lab I probed the substrate preference and activity of a PLP-dependent enzyme. My work led…