Undergraduate Researcher, Zhang Lab
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
Jun 2019 - May 2020 (1 year)
Project: Characterization of secondary metabolites of anaerobes via identification and analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters (Prof. Wenjun Zhang Lab)
• Performing bioinformatic analysis on bacterial genomes to investigate phylogenetic history of S. mutans
• Developing a targeted knockout strategy to unveil natural products from a termite-associated anaerobe
• Constructing plasmids with DNA transformation and conjugation technique, PCR, and gel electrophoresis