Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at UC Davis

Elijah Blank earned a BS in Biology with great distinction from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in May 2018. He is currently working in molecular neurobiology with the Trimmer lab to study ion channel complexes, which are known to organize junctions between the plasma membrane and endoplasmic reticulum in the brain. Mutations in these channels are also associated with devastating neurological disorders. Elijah will use proteomic analysis of these ion channel complexes to identify novel ion channel associated proteins in both mouse tissue and established cell lines.