Mangone Lab

Undergraduate Research

Barrett's Honors Students

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Christina Gallante

Undergraduate Research Student
Email: Christina.Gallante@asu.edu

Establishing transgenic worm strains to identify differentially expressed miRNAs in dystrophin deficient C. elegans muscle

My project seeks to establish dystrophin deficient worm strains to allow for the isolation of miRNAs and their 3'UTR target binding sites specifically in the C. elegans body muscle. To accomplish this, I am crossing dystrophin deficient worm strains, cx18 and eg33, with worms expressing GTF fused to the argonaute protein, alg-1, in order to eventually isolate and sequence the muscle specific miRNAs and their 3'UTR targets. This will allow for a functional analysis of differentially expressed miRNAs in dys-1 dependent muscle degeneration.

ASU Undergraduate Students

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Kylie Snow

Undergraduate Research Student
Email:Kylie.Snow@asu.edu

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Avina Naqvi

Undergraduate Research Student
Email: Avina.Naqvi@asu.edu

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Aleandro Felix Mejia

Undergraduate Research Student
Email: afelixme@asu.edu

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Aleah Deptula

Undergraduate Research Student
Email: aadeptula@asu.edu

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Sabrina Mango

Undergraduate Research Student
Email:smango@asu.edu