Bringing a New Perspective to Gene Regulation

Berkeley Scientific: the journal of young scientists

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Matthew Colbert ; Emily Harari ; Michelle Lee ; Elettra Preosti ; Saumi Shokraee ; Nikhil Chari

关键词: Elcin Unal;    Kinetochore Inactivation;    Long Undecoded Transcript Isoform mRNAs;    Transcriptional Repression;    Translational Repression;    Gene Regulation;   

DOI  :  10.5070/BS3232045357

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of California, Berkeley

【 摘 要 】

EU: I had a very engaging biology teacher in high school. Normally, you think of biology as memorization-based, but itwasn’t taught that way in his class. In Turkey, the college admissionsprocess is a little bit different than in the U.S.; you need to take anational exam, which is basically the only determinant of whether ornot you make it into college. It’s very competitive, and you announceyour major before you actually get there. My teacher informed meabout a new department, Molecular Biology and Genetics, that justopened a few years ago. The year I applied to college was the yearDolly the sheep was cloned, so there was a lot of excitement aroundmolecular biology. Every year, my department would only get about15 students. The training was great, but doing research was difficultfor economic reasons. So I followed the footsteps of the previousyears’ classes, and went for an internship abroad. I actually went tograduate school at the same place abroad the next year.

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