2014 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant
Home Department: Biology
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Michael Snyder, Genetics
Maheetha aims to identify the extent of allele specific translation and to explore the role of differences in expression of translation regulatory proteins, bringing us closer to the ability to link genetic information to phenotypic impact, specifically in relation to human disease.
Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2014:
RNA to Protein: Detecting Differences in Allele Specific RNA Expression and Translation Across Individuals
Maheetha Bharadwaj1, Can Cenik1, Mike Snyder1
[Department of Genetics1, Stanford University]