- July 07, 2014
This summer, Makana started working in a chemical engineering lab with Professor Richard Roberts. Her project uses mRNA display to optimize a sequence of DNA that produces a high-affinity pepide for HDM2, which is related to cancer cells. Starting with a randomly sequenced DNA pool, she uses transcription and translation to produce proteins, then uses binding assays to find the highest affinity protein. Therefore, a diagnostic reagent could be made to detect HDM2 levels in a patient sample. It’s a cool combination of engineering and science at a USC Viterbi lab!
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- Gotta be careful with pipetting microliter amounts!
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- Checking how radioactive my samples are for some concrete data
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- Find out about all the available research opportunities by topic
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- My workbench can be a little messy
[glg_short_two_thirds][glg_short_content_box style=”carrot” title=”My Favorite Part…”] “My favorite part about my research is definitely the people… there are five undergraduates working this summer and we definitely have a lot of fun! I also enjoy the mentorship from the PhD students, who are helping me figure out my post-grad plans!”
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