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Laura O'Brien

Biotechnology and Forensic Science Teacher, Castro Valley High School
IISME Summer Fellow, Stanford University

Education

1998, B.S. Biology and Chemistry, minor in Sociology, Santa Clara University


Biography

  • Laura has 3 daughters, and for 10 months a year, 160 teenagers, who keep her quite busy. She likes to spend her "spare" time camping.


Past Research

  • DNA methylation and mapping familial prostate cancer, USC/Norris Cancer Center, 1998-2001
  • effects of oxidized hemoglobins on erythrocyte membranes, Santa Clara University, 1996-1998


Publications

  • [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11784849 Murine de novo methyltransferase Dnmt3a demonstrates strand asymmetry and site preference in the methylation of DNA in vitro.]
  • [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11404817 A genome screen of families with multiple cases of prostate cancer: evidence of genetic heterogeneity.]

Stanford Team