Dorota Korta

Graduate Student, Developmental Genetics
California Institute of Technology
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Faculty Mentor: E. Jane Albert Hubbard, Ph.D.

My research explores how nutrition sensitive pathways control proliferation of the germ line, utilizing the model organism C. elegans. I am particularly interested in the implications of these findings for both fertility and cancer. When I'm not in lab, I enjoy photography, traveling, and the outdoors.

Thesis

The role of nutrition-sensitive pathways, including the insulin and TOR/Rator/S6K pathways, in the control of germline proliferation in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans

Research Interests

Molecular basis of cancer