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Taylor Won: Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024
Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Excellence I am doing rotations in the Fall and Winter quarters. In my first rotation, I worked in Dr. Benedict Paten’s lab to assess the performance of a genome assembly polish tool for the pangenome project. I’m doing my second rotation in Dr. Russell Corbett-Detig’s lab on…
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Helio Ramollari: Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024
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.
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Jackson Calhoun: Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024
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…
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Tyler Liban: Senior Scientist
Lab / Organization: Gensun Biopharma For my fellowship, I worked in Dr. Seth Rubin’s lab, exploring the relationship between a family of tumor suppressor proteins and DNA transcription factors and how the interaction between these proteins plays into cell cycle control and tumorigenesis. Dr. Rubin’s Lab was a great learning environment with talented people, and…
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Rachel Doran: Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist
Lab / Organization: Cepheid I investigated how viral envelope protein glycosylation variances introduced by in vitro expression systems commonly used for commercial vaccine development affect vaccine antigen immunogenicity and antigenicity during my fellowship year. Now, I work on development of in vitro diagnostic tests for infectious disease, which I am thrilled to be working in.…
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Brandon Rice: Director, Platform Management
Lab / Organization: Resilience I spent my fellowship research year studying Neanderthal variation in modern humans. Neanderthals and human populations interbred during a period of human evolution, which introduced Neanderthal-derived mutations into human genomes. These variants are still kicking around in human populations today. My research was aimed at identifying those Neanderthal variants that have…
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Gopikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena: Photonics Research Scientist
Lab / Organization: Ultra Low Loss Technologies During the QB3 Fellowship year I was working on designing and testing Optofluidic biosensor devices which uses multi-mode interference photonic waveguides for multiplexed diagnostics applications. The fellowship funded my research, paid tuition fee and helped me buy essential text books & lab supplies. My current research is on…