VCU Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute
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Rachel Stewart

  Home Institution
  Oberlin College   (Oberlin, OH)
  E-mail: rachel.stewart (at) Oberlin.edu

  Home mentor
  Taylor Allen
  E-mail: Taylor.Allen (at) Oberlin.edu
  Affiliation: Biology, Oberlin College
  Interests: Studying how the different parts of the myosin protein interact using supressor genetics in c.elegans.
 

VCU Lab
Medical Sciences Building, Room 630
Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Tel: 804-225-4054

VCU mentor
Michael F. Miles
1217 E. Marshall St. Richmond, VA 23298-0599
E-mail: mfmiles (at) VCU.edu
 

Summer 2007
Research Proposal

Using RNAi to Knockdown Sgk1 Levels in Mouse Neuronal Cell Culture
Research article, presented (Summer 2007)
[Inducible Systemic RNA Silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans: Timmons et al. 2003]
Research presentation (8 August 2007)
5th Annual VCU-BBSI Closing Symposium
RNAi Knock-Down of SGK in Neuronal Cells

Academic Year 2007-2008
Research Proposal

Vector Mediated RNAi Knockdown of SGK1 in Neuronal Cell Culture

Summer 2008
Research Proposal

Viral Delivery of Ethanol Response Related Genes in Mouse Brain

Research article, presented (6/13/08)
Ethanol-Responsive Brain Region Expression Networks...Kerns et al. 2005
Research presentation (7 August 2008)
5th Annual VCU-BBSI Closing Symposium
[Viral Delivery of Ethanol Response Related Genes in Mouse Brain]
Final Research Proposal
[Viral Delivery of Ethanol Response Related Genes in Mouse Brain: A Preliminary Study]

Prior research
Using supressor genetics to try and understand how different parts of the Myosin protein interact.

Characteristic interests and activities
Playing the clarinet
Circus arts (acrobalance and tumbling)
Chocolate

My favorite research articles
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Last updated 2007 May 19th

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