Meet The Team
Principal Investigator: Arunika (Runi) Das
Runi did her undergraduate training in Chemistry and master's in Biochemistry from the University of Calcutta, India. She pursued her Graduate thesis project in Dr. Kim McKim’s lab at Rutgers University, New Jersey studying Drosophila meiosis and oocyte spindles.
She was a co-mentored postdoctoral researcher with Drs. Michael Lampson and Ben Black at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked on epigenetic inheritance of centromere nucleosomes and histone stability during reproductive aging.
Runi is an NIH FIRST Faculty in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine!
Runi is passionate about ballet and music and also loves to read!
team Aging
This team is studying how advanced maternal age affects protein balance in mouse eggs , and hoping to identify the "triggers" of female reproductive aging
team epigenetics
This team uses mouse, fly, and horse systems to understand epigenetic mechanisms of maintaining genome integrity in embryos with a focus on centromeres.
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