Biography

I'm a fourth-year biology student planning on continuing research at a graduate school. 

Research Area

I'm focused on studying deleterious mitochondrial mutations using the strain SJ4100 to measure fluorescence. SJ4100 measures heat shock proteins associated with the unfolded protein response (UPR), which is linked with damaged mitochondria. Fluorescence can then be used as a metric to compare strains such as uaDf5 and ATFS-1 which show varying levels of mitochondrial damage.