Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Supported by: Dean of Research
Mentor: Mary Teruel, Chemical & Systems Biology

Mia is experimenting with fluorescent proteins as a means of tracking biological processes in adipose cells. Specifically, she is engaging with digital microscopy in order to follow the process by which PPARG activates the change from stem cell to fat cell.

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

Frequency-Encoding of Fat Cell Differentiation

Mia Hutchinson¹, Karen Tkach¹, Wenting Yang¹, Mary Teruel¹
[Department of Chemical & Systems Biology¹, Stanford University]