Mentor:
Education:
Education: BS Biochemistry – University of Colorado, Boulder, 2010
Awards:
University of Colorado Norlin Scholar – 2006-2010
Research Experience:
2008-2010 – Xuedong Liu’s lab at University of Colorado: Boulder-Inhibition of p27 ubiquitination by small molecules.
Summer 2007 – George Barisa’s lab at Colorado State University: Fort Collins – Tracking membrane protein movements using quantum dot labeling.
Current Research Activities:
I am studying interactions of proteins involved in the circadian clock of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Poster:
Protein Interactions in the Drosophila melanogaster Circadian Clock, 2013 Keck Biomembrane Retreat, Ithaca, NY, June 25-27, 2013
Publications:
Vaidya, A. T., Top, D., Manahan, C. C., Tokuda, J. M., Zhang, S., Pollack, L., Young, M. W., and Crane, B. R. (2013) Flavin reduction activates Drosophila cryptochrome, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 20455-20460. PubMed
Conrad, K. S., Manahan, C. C., and Crane, B. R. (2014) Photochemistry of flavoprotein light sensors, Nat. Chem. Biol. 10, 801-809. PubMed