Home Department: Biology
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Daniel Jarosz, Chemical & Systems Biology and Developmental Biology

Alex's research in Dr. Jarosz's lab focuses on understanding how changes in activity of the chaperone Hsp90 can alter the distribution of fitness of different genotypes. This summer, Alex is testing the hypothesis that inhibition of Hsp90 can alter the set of accessible mutational trajectories in the evolution of antifungal drug resistance.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2014:

Hsp90 and the Evolution of New Traits

Alex Yuan¹, Daniel Jarosz^1,2
[Departments of Chemical & Systems Biology¹ and Developmental Biology², Stanford University]