Achievement

The Summer Wet-Lab Experience is an activity in the summer before the first year of graduate study. All first year IGERT trainees participate in one of several faculty mentor labs where they learn and use high-throughput experimental techniques for molecular biology research and become familiar with the type of data they will eventually analyze with bioinformatics tools. IGERT trainee projects were: Gracia Bonilla -- Gene expression and enhancer activity in mouse liver; Anna Tassinari -- Experimental assembly of NOR gate circuits using DNA cloning, recombination, and BioBrick assembly techniques in Escherichia coli; Joshua Loving -- Development of a new experimental method to make a high-resolution map of all protein-DNA interactions in a genome; Yozen Hernandez -- Expression levels of enzymes in the Glucose Transporter proteins (GLUTs) superfamily; and Harold Gomez -- qPCR survey of H3K27ac enhancer sites of Sult3a1 murine liver cells.