Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at UC Davis

Jonathan Amezquita graduated in May 2018 from Macalester College with a Biology major and English minor. He currently works with JoAnne Engebrecht to study sex-dependent security checkpoints in meiosis via investigating the spindle-assembly checkpoint in C. elegans. Inhibition of this checkpoint may lead to mutagenesis, cell death, or defects in gametogenesis. Jonathan will characterize the spindle-assembly checkpoint response to erroneous kinetochore attachment in C. elegans male meiosis. He will use CRISPR/Cas9 to generate gene knockouts involved with the spindle assembly checkpoint and will analyze their effects to meiosis through live-cell imaging.