Jocelynn was previously under co-mentorship from Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price at the Institute for Systems Biology.
Previous work:
Jocelynn began her training as an undergraduate research apprentice in Wayne Sousa's lab in the Integrative Biology Department at UC Berkeley.
Jocelynn was a research associate at Sangamo BioSciences for over three years, and worked on a number of projects including:
Targeted Gene Regulation for Huntington's Disease
Development of an engineered zinc finger transcription factor therapeutic to treat Huntington's Disease.
Targeted Genome Editing for Down's Syndrome (Collaboration with Jeanne Lawrence, UMMS)
Integration of an XIST donor into chromosome 21 to cause Barr body silencing.
Targeted Integration in Human Genomic Safe-Harbor Locus (Collaboration with Sigma-Aldrich)
Improvement of the efficiency and specificity of AAVS1 targeting zinc finger nucleases
University of Washington graduate student rotations:
Stam Lab // Functional Analysis of Transcription Factor Networks
Several master regulators in K562 cells were knocked down using siRNA and the network effects were analyzed
Kiem Lab // Hematopoietic Stem Cell Therapy
Differentiation of iPS cells into hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells and validation of a suicide gene as a safety switch for hematopoietic stem cell therapy.