Alex Chen
B.S. in Molecular Environmental Biology, \\nB.A. Data Science Double Major at UC Berkeley
- Role
- Undergraduate Research Assistant, Bustamante Lab at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Bustamante Lab
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Feb 2024 — Present
Conducting research into the effect of FACT protein on histone dimer dissociation in DNA transcription- We have targeted Widom\'s 601 nucleosome and are now targeting the 5S nucleosome to test histone dimer dissociation - Experience with optical tweezers, preparing bulk transcription assays, PCR, bacterial transformation and recombination, insect cell transfection, gel-based activity based protein profiling, synthesis and purification of organic molecules, maintaining cell cultures, running gel electrophoresis, Western blots, and other proteomics methods- Experience in performing data analysis and graphing tweezer force data with MatLab
Education
UC Berkeley, Rausser College of Natural Resources
Bachelor of Science - BS
2023 — 2025
UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science
Bachelor of Arts - BA
2023 — 2025
Berkeley City College
Biology, General
2021 — 2023
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