Bio
Zoe Upham graduated from San José State University (SJSU) with a bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology and a minor in Chemistry. At SJSU, she worked under Dr. Melissa Pickett to investigate the effects of PAR-1 on the establishment and maintenance of epithelial cell polarity using C. elegans intestines as a model. As a PREP scholar she will continue her work in C. elegans, using GEMs to measure differences in molecular crowding of the cytoplasm in different tissues, eventually looking into molecular crowding in disease and aging states. Zoe hopes to pursue a PhD in molecular cell or developmental biology.