Design, construct, and characterize various artificial RNA temperature switches that control gene expression in living cells
Student Name: Audrey Liu. UCD Department: Biomechanical Engineering. UCD Mentor: Yohei Yokobayashi.
The project is about controlling gene expression with RNA
switches. There are many switches in nature which respond to
temperature in their environment that will turn on or off the
production of certain proteins. Most switches turn on production
at higher temperatures, but the project involves creating and
understanding a switch which turns on at lower temperatures and
off at higher temperatures.
