Jonathan K
- Research Program Mentor
PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Expertise
Gene regulation, applications of CRISPR-cas9 gene editing
Project ideas
Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.
Doing biology (genetics) the good old way
Fly geneticists inferred so much about how genes work without even knowing what a gene is. Let's go back and look at how they did that and how it informed what a gene must be. This historical perspective holds many lessons that a data-drowning age like ours should be reminded of.