Master'S Student
Zürich, Schweiz
• Examining the contributing stimulus of endogenous self nucleic acid derived from expression of endogenous retroelements to antiviral defences• Exploration of molecular mechanisms controlling infection-triggered expression of immunostimulatory self RNAs• Techniques include cell culture, generation of transduced cell lines, virus infection, cloning, siRNA and plasmid transfection, RNA isolation, RT- qPCR, proximity labelling, western blotting, immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence and cell viability assays• Experiment design and documentation, literature research, data analysis and presentation