Dominik Rabus (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). The first focused on creating a bio-sensor for arsenic in collaboration with UCSC adjunct professor Dr. Layla plans to use the award to present her work at the 2015 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM in Washington, D.C. December 8, 2014: CONGRATULATIONS Layla who has received a $1500 Undergraduate Research Award from the Sciences Awards Division of UCSC.

Her work will elucidate how new biochemical activities evolve and provide the tools to anticipate the outcome of complex mutations. She will be comparing side-by-side libraries generated by polymerases having different mutation frequency and spectrum, and she will compare the frequency and type of cefotaxmine-resistant mutants after parallel selection of the two libraries. Cervantes also studied how modulating the fidelity of replication affects beta-lactamase’s ability to evolve cefotaxmine-resistant mutants.

This will allow her to obtain combinations of mutations contributing positively to cefotaxmine resistance. She then subjects the bacteria to cefotaxmine to cause another mutation that increases resistance to this antibiotic. She identified how starting mutations condition subsequent mutational trajectories and more generally how individual mutations interact with each other phenotypically. coli cells under antibiotic (cefotaxmine) selection.

Layla Cervantes studied how the beta-lactamase protein evolves in E.

Using tor browser ucsc