Sydney Purcell

Bachelor's

Biotechnology

Viral Genetics Lab at Rochester Institute of Technology

Undergraduate Student Researcher

- Conduct research overseen by Dr. Maureen Ferran in Viral Genetics Lab - Design experiments involving high throughput-sequencing of Caenorhabditis elegans genes - Design experiment involving the molecular fluorescent staining and imaging of breast cancer cells - Perform molecular cloning of plasmids containing sgRNA - Maintain cancerous and non-cancerous cell lines (MDA-MB-231, HUVEC, EMT6, Vero, LNCaP, & PC3 - Projects - Viral Vector-Mediated Gene Activation in Caenorhbditis Elegans - Utilize recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) to deliver sgRNA to transgenic C. elegans - Design and clone plasmids with sgRNAs capable of targeting an endogenous C.elegans gene - Targeted Molecular Fluorescent Imaging of Breast Cancer Cells - Optimize imaging of MDA-MB-231, EMT6, HUVEC cells using targeted molecular probes, confocal