Diana Miller, BIO ‘07, is currently working in a research laboratory in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, studying Gaucher’s Disease using shRNA to knockdown the enzyme in human embryonic stem cells. She recently presented her work at the Maryland Stem Cell Symposium, and was a co-author on a study published in the journal Nature. The abstract can be found at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature07639.html. Her main contribution was showing that stem cells can be targeted in-vivo using a lentivirus that encodes a luciferase fragment and that a live bioluminescence imaging system can be used to view where these stem cells reside in the mouse. Congratulations Diana!
SU alum publishes in Nature
Dec 4th, 2008 by meredithdurmowicz