I did my Ph.D. work in the McManus lab and finished up my dissertation in May 2009. I became hooked on small RNAs during my undergraduate studies in 2001, when the Tuschl, Bartel and Ambros labs, discovered that hundreds of small RNAs exist in animal genomes. Since I just could not get small RNAs off of my mind, I joined the McManus lab and worked on a mouse model which depleted miRNAs in the brain.
Now, that I have graduated and left the lab, I am happy to say that I am still studying small RNAs at Genentech.
I can be contacted at Trinna22@gmail.com
After I completed my studies on the Roles of Dicer in Dopaminoceptive neurons, I became fascinated with post-transcriptional regulation of these RNAs in neurons and I have developed a biochemical assay to examine their turnover.