Ariel Bazzini, Ph.D.
Associate Investigator
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The Bazzini Lab
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I am very interested in all the applications of computational biology, during my undergrad thesis I did molecular dynamics simulations of protein complexes to analyze the mechanism of action of pore-forming peptides, then, for my MSc thesis, I focused on Artificial Intelligence-based drug discovery. I am currently studying how dORFs can regulate the translation of canonical ORFs by analyzing Ribo-seq and RNA-seq data.
Danielson Baia Amaral
Predoctoral Researcher
B.S., Federal University of Pará
M.S., Federal University of Pará
Joined: 2019
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I have an ever growing passion for Biology since elementary school, exploring ideas and testing hypothesis is exciting! For my PhD I’m very interested in investigating the mechanisms that regulate mRNA degradation rate, both normally and in aberrant molecules, how they affect gene expression, embryo development and their role in evolution.
Ariel Bazzini
Associate Investigator
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Development and Regeneration, Genetics and Genomics, Molecular and Cell Biology
Courses Taught
Gene Expression: Transcription to translation; Laboratory Rotation; Thesis laboratory
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Ariel Bazzini joined the Stowers Institute in 2016. His research focuses on gene regulation in development and disease and in unraveling the intricacies in RNA stability and translation.
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I am fascinated by how cells change over time, particularly in zebrafish development where in less than 12 hours cells transition from undifferentiated blastomeres to brain, muscle, germline, etc. While we now understand many of the transcriptional hierarchies that regulate early embryonic development, much remains unknown about how translational regulators shape this rapid acquisition of cell fates!
María José (Majo) Blanco Salazar
Predoctoral Researcher
B.S., Basic Biomedical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Joined: 2021
Luciana Castellano
Predoctoral Researcher
B.S., M.S., Biotechnology, National University of General San Martin
Joined: 2018
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I am passionate about cell biology. I love studying the mechanisms that regulate gene expression and cell fate specification. In particular, I am truly intrigued by how viruses can impact host gene regulation and which factors orchestrate this phenomenon.
Gabriel da Silva Pescador
Predoctoral Researcher
B.S., Federal University of Santa Catarina
M.S., Federal University of Santa Catarina
Joined: 2019
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Gabriel da Silva Pescador has always been interested in natural sciences, so when he was introduced to cell biology in high school, he ran with it – all the way to becoming a predoctoral researcher in the Graduate School of the Stowers Institute.
Along his journey, he has taken a few steady leaps. As an undergraduate and master’s student, he studied how epidermal growth factor promotes neural crest cells to become pigmented melanocytes in the quail research organism.
While an undergrad, he spent time at the University of Pittsburgh as an exchange student and worked with fruit flies. He published a paper on Latin American contributions to neural crest research, and worked as a research technician for Marianne Bronner, Ph.D., at Caltech.
da Silva Pescador knew about Stowers because he was familiar with the work of Graduate School Faculty and Stowers Investigator Paul Trainor, Ph.D., and Imaging Center Director Paul Kulesa, Ph.D., on the neural crest. When he visited the campus, he was encouraged by the enthusiasm of fellow scientists toward their research.
As a predoctoral researcher, da Silva Pescador wants to enhance his scientific thinking to answer relevant questions in developmental biology while working with investigators and predoctoral researchers from different backgrounds.
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Josefina is a postdoctoral research associate in the Si and Bazzini labs.
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Gopal Kushawah is a postdoctoral research associate in the Bazzini lab studying RNA decay in zebrafish.
Amruta Swaminathan
Predoctoral Researcher
B.S., M.S. in Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Joined: 2021