Alejandro Virrueta - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow
Mentor: Shoshana Levy, Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Helen Blau
Talk Title: Telomere shortening as a hallmark of lethal dilated cardiomyopathy
Event: 2017 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Telomere Conference
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Adam Wang
Talk Title: Tissue Interfacing Robotic Therapeutics
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2021
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Electronic skin for biomedical applications
Event: 1st Annual Winterschool on Bioelectronics
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: W.E. Moerner
Talk Title: Correcting nanoscale aberrations over the field of view in three-dimensional localization microscopy”
Event: Picoquant's 22nd International Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy in the Life Sciences
Nature has created many powerful biomolecules that are hidden in organisms across kingdoms of life. Many of these biomolecules originate from microbes, which collectively contain the most diverse gene pool among living organisms. Dr. Alex Gao's lab is integrating high-throughput computational and experimental approaches to harness the vast diversity of genes in microbes to develop new antibiotics and molecular biotechnology, and to investigate the evolution of proteins and molecular mechanisms in innate immunity.