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| Charles David |
| Graduate Student |
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| I was born in North Carolina, lived there for three years, then moved to Saudi Arabia for another four. After that I moved to London for the next eight years. In the tenth grade, I moved from London to Jacksonville FL, and after I got over my culture shock, I finished high school there. I stayed in the south for college at Duke. After that I moved to Boston for a couple of years to work in a lab.
The lab I worked in as an undergraduate used a genetic approach to identify enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of a class of plant hormones with a wonderful name, gibberellins. I worked with Arabidopsis thaliana and loved every minute of it. After college I went to work in a lab using a biochemical approach to try to fish out enzymes (or other proteins) involved in another biosynthetic pathway, this time the regeneration of 11-cis retinal from the all-trans isomer in the eye.
I'm not sure what I'll work on in grad school, but right now I'm very interested in RNA processing. |
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