Lia Serrano
Chemistry Graduate Program
Faculty Advisor: Joshua Coon
Lia Serrano’s research is focused on development of a mass spectrometry-based proteomic strategy to enable protein level analysis of genomic variation and RNA editing.
Auguste Dutcher
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Genetics Graduate Program
Faculty Advisor: Audrey Gasch
Auguste Dutcher’s research focuses on identifying Ssd1-medicated processes via a comprehensive screen of genetic interactions. Ssd1, a pleiotropic RNA binding protein, has been found by the lab to enable wild yeast to tolerate extra chromsomes.
Sarah Boutom
Biomedical Engineering PhD Program
Faculty Advisor: Sean Palecek
Sarah Boutom’s research focuses on elucidating the relationship of hypoxia-mediated signaling with known and undiscovered pathways important in specification of the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier, which separates the systemic circulation from tissue of the central nervous system, is known to be disrupted in several neurologic disease processes and is a major limiting factor in delivery of pharmacologic therapies to the brain.