Category: Neurobiology
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Videos
Below is a video made by SimpliSci.org describing one of our papers:
Here is a clip of me describing some of the work that we do in the lab:
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Thanks GeneDig
I was curious about trinucleotide repeat disorders like Huntington’s disease and where the trinucleotide repeats occurred in the Huntingtin RNA, near beginning, middle, or end of the RNA? I first tried looking up the huntingtin gene (HTT) in NCBI and then realized this was going to take a while—and wouldn’t be reasonable for the rest of the trinucleotide repeat disorders I was also curious about. Then I realized that even the normal HTT gene should have a few trinucleotide repeats, so I looked up HTT using GeneDig and found the CAGCAGCAG repeats immediately.
I then repeated this for the other trinucleotide repeat disorders and even found whether the repeats were in the Untranslated Region of the RNA or not. Sweet. GeneDig.
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Congrats to my students!
Kudos to my two trainees, Chiu-An Lo and Ibrahim Kays, who were awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Brain Star award for 2016! A well-deserved $1500 for them, they worked super hard on this project over the years. Their science game is strong. With Vedrana Cvetkovska winning in 2013, I now have a 100% hit rate for my grad students winning this CIHR award!