Camryn is a fourth-year undergraduate at UNC double-majoring in Neuroscience and Exercise and Sports Science and minoring in Spanish for the Medical Professions. Before attending UNC, she was a Robert H. Kirsten student intern at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland. There, she worked with Dr. Anu Puri and Dr. Bruce A. Shapiro in the RNA Biology Lab studying the role of photoactivatable lipid-based nanoparticles in anticancer drug delivery. After graduating from high school in 2019, Camryn began her undergraduate education at UNC Chapel Hill. Since 2020, Camryn has been a member of Dr. Todd Cohen’s lab and is working with Dr. Henry Tseng to evaluate the role of tau acetylation in Alzheimer’s Disease pathology. Outside of the lab, she is a houseplant enthusiast (currently a mom to over 40 different plants!), loves attending and watching sporting events, and will never turn down a good coffee.
Contributing Publications:
Tabassum, Z.; Tseng, J.-H.; Isemann, C.; Tian, X.; Chen, Y.; Herring, L. E.; Cohen, T. J. Identification of a Reciprocal Negative Feedback Loop between Tau-Modifying Proteins MARK2 Kinase and CBP Acetyltransferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2022, 298 (6), 101977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101977.
Puri, A.; Viard, M.; Zakrevsky, P.; Zampino, S.; Chen, A.; Isemann, C.; Alvi, S.; Clogston, J.; Chitgupi, U.; Lovell, J. F.; Shapiro, B. A. Photoactivation of Sulfonated Polyplexes Enables Localized Gene Silencing by DsiRNA in Breast Cancer Cells. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine 2020, 26, 102176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nano.2020.102176.
