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Mariana Lopes dos Santos
Undergraduate observer, Pharmacology
Biomedicine Undergraduate Student at Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA).
Recently Health Sciences Exchange Student at Bishop’s University (PÉÉ-BCI), Canada
Research Description
Mariana was an observer in May-June 2018. Under direct supervision of a senior graduate student Nicole Perry Mariana learned subcloning and protein purification, focusing on enhanced mutants of visual arrestin-1 and purification of MAP kinases expressed din E. coli