A chemical biology group at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the Lazarus Lab, led by Michael Lazarus, Ph.D., is utilizes chemical and structural tools to understand how cells respond to changes in nutrient levels, both in normal and disease states.
As a summer research intern, I learned chemical biology lab techniques (i.e. bacterial and mammalian cell culture, protein isolation and purification) to support laboratory efforts in understanding the structure of ULK4, a protein kinase implicated in schizophrenia. The laboratory’s publication on ULK4 can be found here.