Home Department: Biology
Supported by: The Rose Hills Foundation
Mentor: Carla Shatz, Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology
Sarah Cheng is a senior majoring in biology. She hails from sunny San Diego, where she spent the majority of her childhood fascinated by the swiveling eyeballs of critters bathing in tide pools. At Stanford she became exposed to the wonders of brain development and has since been at the Shatz lab studying brain development using the visual system as a handy tool. At the lab, Sarah works on a project studying the effect of visual deprivation on gene expression in the visual cortex. She is interested in whether lack of vision influences the expression of select MHC Class I genes.
Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 17, 2011:
Visual Experience Dependent Regulation of Plasticity Genes
Sarah Cheng1, Jaimie Adelson2, Barbara Brott1, Carla Shatz1,2
[Departments of Biology1 and Neurosciences2, Stanford University3]
Home Department: Biology
Supported by: Rose Hills Foundation
Mentor: Geoffrey C. Gurtner, Professor of Surgery
Sarah Cheng is about to begin her junior year at Stanford. She first became interested in the biology major through taking biology core. This summer, Sarah is researching whether hydrogel-imbedded mesenchymal stem cells can achieve enhanced survival in wounds and whether hydrogel-imbedded mesenchymal stem cells can enhance angiogenesis and accelerate wound closure. Sarah chose this project because she is interested in surgical applications of stem cells.
Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 25, 2010:
Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate in a Biomimetic Collagen Hydrogel: A Regenerative Matrix for Enhanced Cutaneous Wound Healing
Sarah M. Cheng, Kristine C. Rustad, Victor W. Wong, Michael Sorkin, Jason P. Glotzbach, Dean Nehama, Melanie R. Major, Jayakumar Rajadas, Michael T. Longaker, Geoffrey C. Gurtner
[Biology, Surgery, Neurology; Stanford University]
