Assistant Professor, Biology, University of Toronto
I'm an assistant professor at the University of Toronto (same university where I obtained my PhD). My lab studies how mutations affect our genomes and how this affects evolution. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Michael Desai at Harvard University, where I developed several synthetic biology tools to interrogate cells and observe evolution at extremely high resolution.
New research into genetic mutations may pave the way for more effective gene therapies
Aug 24, 2023 07:17 am UTC| Science
Consider a living cell, which can have thousands of genes. Now think of these genes as dials that can be tweaked to change how the cell grows in a given environment. Tweaking a gene can either increase or decrease growth,...
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