Farewell to the 2020 Summer Students

Bottom row (L to R): Aston, Vivienne, Sarah

Middle row (L to R): Karen, Airlie, Oliver
Top row (L to R): Quinlyn, Carla

The 2020 summer students finished their 8 week research projects today after presenting their work at the Centenary Institute 3-minute talks. A panel of judges selected the best talks out of 14 students. Congratulations to Carla Jensen, who was awarded 2nd prize for her presentation!

Well done to all the students for completing their summer projects! Oliver, Quin and Vivienne will continue as honours students in the Rasko lab in 2021.

List of students and their projects:

Supervised by Dannel Yeo

• Oliver Liang - 'Testing the cytotoxicity of CAR-T cells'

  Carla Jensen - 'Visualising CAR-T cells and Mesothelin positive cells using immunofluorescence'

• Karen Tran - 'Chemosensitivity Studies in Mesothelioma Cells'

Supervised by Ulf Schmitz

• Sarah Ho - 'The Characterisation of Novel CLEC12A/MIR223 Fusion using Bioinformatic Approaches'

Supervised by Chuck Bailey

• Vivienne Kaiser - 'Investigating the role post-translational modifications have in regulating AAV host factors'

• Aston Buffier - 'An Endosomal Recycling Protein as a New AAV Host Factor?'

• Quinlyn Satava - 'ZNF185 - a regulator of cell polarity during endometrial cancer pathogenesis?'

• Airlie Kinross - ‘ZooCTCF: A Regulatory Atlas for CTCF in Vertebrate development’

The Li Ka Shing lab celebratory dinner with their summer research students. Congrats to Carla (second from left) on winning 2nd prize for her presentation!