Undergraduate Researcher
Current• Researching SIRT5 protein triggered by sirtuins, PAPPA, which plays a key-survival role in melanoma, ewingsarcoma, and other cancers• Working to elucidate protein involvement in combination of gene expression and metabolic approaches, throughtechniques such as maxi/mini-prep procedures, qPCR tests, cell culture and passaging, live/dead cell staining, westernblotting, etc.• Published as an author in The American Journal of Surgical Pathology: “Pan-cancer Genomic Analysis of AXLMutations Reveals a Novel, Recurrent, Functionally Activating AXL W451C Alteration Specific toMyxofibrosarcoma”