Your gift to the Undergraduate Splicing Lab project will be used to provide 10 to 20 UC Santa Cruz students with the supplies needed to carry out hypothesis-driven research focusing on the molecular basis of inherited human diseases.
The big idea is that mutations in genes sometimes cause disease. The Undergraduate Splicing Lab project will determine how disease causing mutations interfere with a key step in gene expression: pre-mRNA splicing. Previous work from the Professor Sanford's Lab discovered thousands of disease-causing and potentially splicing sensitive mutations. Students will create models of each gene in order to determine if specific mutations disrupt splicing.
Our goal is to provide a diverse array of students with increased access to the authentic research experiences that are often transformational in setting career paths. We welcome your support on behalf of our students and what this research can teach all of us.
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