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Anna Erickson

At UCSB, I was interested in protein structure and how it affects functionality. I worked with Megan Grabenauer looking at aggregation rates of α-synuclein. Various studies implicate pesticides as compounds that accelerate the aggregation of this protein, which is associated with Parkinson's disease. We attempted to characterize α-synuclein/pesticide complexes using ion mobility methods and explored other methods for monitoring changes in the proteins’s structure since the pesticide complexes proved difficult to isolate.

Current Address
College of Biological Sciences
University of California
Davis, CA

Personal e-mail: secunda7@yahoo.com