Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at UC Davis

Amy Leslie graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in June 2019. At UCSC, she was an IMSD scholar and conducted research in Alan Zahler’s lab, where she studied alternative pre-mRNA splicing in C. elegans. Amy’s research interests include genetics, molecular biology, and immunology. At UC Davis, she works in Lesilee Rose’s lab, which studies asymmetric cell division in C. elegans. The Rose lab has examined LET-99’s role in regulating spindle positioning and cytokinesis during asymmetric division. Amy will use structure function analysis to determine which domains of LET-99 are required for its localization to the membrane and its roles in cell division.