Working in Nobel prize recipient Dr. Charles M. Rice’s lab, I began learning proper wet-lab techniques and dipped my toes into what it means to be a scientist. I was fresh out of high school and working with this untested and brand new gene-editing tool called CRISPR. I helped develop new techniques for CRISPR, sequencing various viral genomes and determining proper splicing regions for our use cases. I even got to run some experiments on the effectiveness of my PCR preps.

Relevant Publications (Co-Authored)

K. Rozen-Gagnon et al., “Argonaute-CLIP delineates versatile, functional RNAi networks in Aedes aegypti, a major vector of human viruses,” Cell Host & Microbe, May 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.03.004.

K. Rozen-Gagnon, S. Yi, E. Jacobson, S. Novack, and C. M. Rice, “A selectable, plasmid-based system to generate CRISPR/Cas9 gene edited and knock-in mosquito cell lines,” Sci Rep, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-80436-5.