2009 JJ Vance Memorial Interns
Arielle Kushman-
During her internship, Arielle learnt the techniques of PCR and capillary sequencing. She quickly grasped the concepts of PCR and sequencing and mastered the skills including setting up the reactions, running agarose gels for quality checking, as well as analyzing the chromatography sequencing data with the ''Sequencher'' software. Arielle screened 46 HSP patients for mutations in gene SPG3A and discovered 2 mutations that would affect the function of this gene and cause the disease in these patients. Arielle will be a rising senior at Ransom Everglades School in Miami.
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