Sham Rampersaud

Sham Rampersaud

Sham Rampersaud UC San Francisco “Engineering best-in-class chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies for AML by targeting CD70 and active integrin beta-2” My work entails studying the barriers of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in...
Cade Mirchandani

Cade Mirchandani

Cade Mirchandani UC Santa Cruz “Genetic inference of transmission bottleneck size in a deep-sea clam symbiosis” We used ultra-accurate DNA sequencing and computational modeling to estimate how many genetically distinct symbiotic bacteria are passed from...
Mohammad Hashemian

Mohammad Hashemian

Mohammad Hashemian UC Davis “DNA DAMAGE DETECTION AND REPAIR MOTIFS IN MUTYH: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF METAL COFACTORS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN CARCINOGENESIS” MUTYH is critically important in BER, catalyzing adenine excision on DNA containing...
Alexandra Adams

Alexandra Adams

Alexandra Adams Stanford “Rationally designed split Lettuce aptamer based on large scale mutational analysis” Aptamers are short, single stranded nucleic acids, which exhibit a unique ability to form complex tertiary structures and bind to molecules, much...