2014 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant

Home Department: Human Biology
Supported by: The Rose Hills Foundation and Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Mentor: Margaret Fuller, Developmental Biology

Rebecca's research focuses on investigating the protein Bgcn in mouse models to determine the role it could play in mammals to pave the foundations for developing better fertility treatments, as well as understanding how to regulate adult stem cell proliferation and differentiation.

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

The Role of mBgcn in the Switch from Proliferation to Differentiation in the Adult Mammalian Germ Line Stem Cell Lineage

Rebecca Gold1, Alexis Bailey1, Margaret Fuller1
[Department of Developmental Biology1, Stanford University]