Gopal's Profile
Gopal Kushawah is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Bazzini Lab studying RNA decay in zebrafish. Kushawah is interested in the noncoding regions of the genome and how its complexity increases with more complex organisms. Even during early embryonic development, how the noncoding regions of the genome regulate the fate of the early embryo development is not well understood. Now, with the advent of the CRISPR-Cas system, it has become more accessible and fascinating to unravel the role of such sequences at both the DNA and RNA levels. Recently, the lab has developed CRISPR-Cas13d for more advanced vertebrate research organisms. CRISPR-Cas13d can target different kinds of RNA in the genome and decipher the complex regulatory lexicon of early embryonic development in higher vertebrate systems. Outside the lab, Kushawah enjoys playing cricket and volleyball, cooking, and watching sci-fi movies.