Ramiz Somjee

MSTP in PhD Training

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Joseph C. Corbo, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Rhodes College, 2020

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Studying disordered protein regions and their role in photoreceptor gene regulation

Many protein regions do not adopt a fixed secondary structure and thus are labelled intrinsically disordered. I study the role of these intrinsically disordered protein regions in gene regulation using the retina as a model system.

Graduate publications