Graduate Student
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
I am Sorel, a Forth year graduate student at Brown University working under the guidance of Dr. Mark Johnson in the department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. Our lab focuses on plan sexual reproduction and specifically on the interactions between female and male reproductive tissues and gametes. I am intersted in these interaction in the context of climate change. Prior to registering at Brown, I earned a Bachelors with honors in Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis on Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. While there, I worked on the improvement of iLOV, a non-GFP fluorescent protein. this work is available at ACS Synth. Biol. 2017, 6, 10, 1825–1833 https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.7b00112. After earning my bachelor degree, I remained at UC Berkeley to perfrom research on micobacterium Tuberculosis in an effort to understand the function of Lipid Droplets induced in macrophages after infection. Additionally I developed a method to build a library of barcoded single mutants of micobacterium Tuberculosis to fascilitate the identification of virulent genes. My current work at Brown University focuses on identifying and understanding the key stages of plant reproduction that are sensitive to heat stress and to identify ways to isolate the genes/genes variants that drive plant sexual reproduction at elevated temperatures. I hope my work will contribute to the current fight to adapt our agriculture of the ever increasing mean daily temperatures.
Monday, August 7, 2023
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM EDT