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Research on Alzheimer’s disease Pathogenesis and Frontotemporal dementia •Analysis of candidate genes that may be associated with Alzheimer’s disease or Frontotemporal dementia by genotyping SNPs using Applied BioSystems Taqman Assays, SEQUENOM’s iPLEX Genotyping Chemistry, and Applied BioSystems Open Array Genotyping System. •Produce, purify, and maintain Lentivirus in 293FT cells to be transfected into Primary neuronal cell cultures• Characterizing the effects on amyloid beta and RNA and/or protein in Primary neuronal cell culture on postnatal mice using lentiviral gene knockdowns

Alzheimer’s disease Pathogenesis Research•Analysis of candidate genes that may be associated with Alzheimer’s disease by genotyping SNPs using Applied BioSystems Taqman Assays and SEQUENOM’s iPLEX Genotyping Chemistry. Evaluating gene expression through cell culture and electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA).

Examined haplotype variations of microbial communities in contaminated soils by isolating, cloning, amplifying, and sequencing 16S ribosomal DNA.

• Genotyped two species of killfish (Fundulus heteroclitus and F. grandis) by sequencing two loci including the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 and the 5’ untranslated region of the nuclear gene lactate dehydrogenase b.