Erasmus+ Trainee in the Dean Lab
Rahel Fitzel, a student at the Universit盲t Ulm in Germany, completed a 10-week Erasmus+ research traineeship, under the supervision of Dr Kellie Dean in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Rahel is currently completing a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Molecular Medicine, a programme that trains students in scientific subjects and supplies them with a medical background. During her time at UCC, Rahel鈥檚 research project was to create tagged-versions of proteins that have been identified to interact with an RNA-binding protein associated with two forms of muscular dystrophy. Rahel succeeded in doing this and was instrumental in advancing the work, stating that she had 鈥�the most amazing time鈥� in the lab and that she 鈥�could not have found a better internship!鈥�
Ongoing research in Dr Dean鈥檚 group is focused on identifying and characterizing RNA-protein complexes implicated in human diseases like cancer, muscular dystrophies and neurodegeneration.