Hi all,
This summer is flying by so fast! It’s been great spending
time in the Coller lab, but I’m sad because this 10 week program is almost
over. We’ve been making progress in our lab, and the grad student I’ve been
working with wants to publish at the end of this year! We’re studying
alternative polyadenylation in the RECK gene and have noted that while the
canonical, long isoform decreases cancer cell migration and invasion, a second shorter
isoform is highly produced in cancer cell lines and increases migration and
invasion. We’ve been trying to analyze this mechanism and the extent of the interactions
between the two isoforms – we hypothesize that the short isoform directly binds
to and suppresses long RECK’s ability to suppress cancer migration and invasion,
but still have more to look into.
I’ve also gotten the chance to spend time with the other
students from Santa Monica College doing research here since I’m dorming on the
same floor as them in Gardenia. They’re a very energetic bunch and take full
advantage of their time at UCLA – they work out at Wooden at 5 a.m., swim at
Sunset Rec every night, try different Westwood restaurants, and do all sorts of
things I take for granted since I have access to these things year round. I’ve
gone off campus to eat with them a few times and am going to Six Flags with
them on Sunday, so we’ll see how it goes!
Best,
Oye
The smoke in LA last Saturday
from the Sand Fire Hanging out with
some of the SMC students!
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