Madhuri Jayathirtha of Bangalore, India will travel to Philadelphia, PA, on April 2-5th to attend and present her work at the ASBMB conference. The ASBMB 2022 Graduate Student Award will support her travel.
Jayathirtha is a Ph.D. candidate at Clarkson University who works in the Biochemistry and Proteomics Group under the supervision of Dr. Costel C. Darie, an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science.
Jayathirtha will present her project entitled “Mass Spectrometry based Proteomics to Investigate and characterize the Human Jumping Translocation Breakpoint (hJTB) Protein using cancer cell lines”. This study is used to investigate the function of human JTB. JTB protein is required for normal cell division. If you have too much of this protein, you get cancer, mostly prostate and breast cancer. Investigating the function of this protein will help in testing it as a potential serum biomarker for the identification of breast cancer.
“I am very happy about the travel award,” said Jayathirtha. “This will be my first time at this ASBMB conference. Since my research completely focuses on cell biology and biochemistry, I am excited to present my work and discuss my project with the other members of the society,” ended Jayathirtha.
