Graduate Student Researcher
- Thesis focus: Environmental toxicity of lithium on organelle size/function in S. cerevisiae.
- Techniques used: Fluorescence microscopy, phosphomimetics, and computational analysis.
- Objective: Understand how metals and metabolites impair cellular processes like organelle inheritance and morphological regulation.
- Tested Lithium’s ability to negatively regulates kinase activation, thereby Inhibiting organelle localization and distribution during cell division.