Home Department: Biology
Supported by: Anonymous Donor
Mentor: Jin Billy Li, Genetics

Dionna Jacobson is studying how RNA editing affects neurological functions in the brain, as it has been implicated in neurological disease. Specifically, she is using the CRISPR/ Cas9 genetic engineering system to examine the phenotypic outcomes of perturbing certain editing sites, which are computationally predicted to be neurologically important, in genes of flies.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 26, 2015:

Examining the Function of Individual A-to-I RNA Editing Sites in Drosophila

Dionna Jacobson¹, Tricia Deng¹, Lisa Zhang¹, Chris Li¹, Carrie Yan¹, Nora Nguyen¹, Jin Billy Li¹
[Department of Genetics¹, Stanford University]