Bioscience Internship: Roybal Lab, UCSFÂ
Internship Mentor: Camillia Azimi (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Engineering Regulatory and Primary T Cells to Simultaneously Express Stablizing/Immunosuppressive Payloads and Hybrid SynNotch CAR Receptors
Jelena has a BS in Chemistry from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia and an MS in Chemistry (Biophysical Chemistry) from UC Davis. She has experience in Analytical Chemistry and is interested in Immunology and Molecular biology especially as they relate to finding new therapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases. She highly enjoys performing cell culture, molecular cloning, protein purification and Flow cytometry experiments and related analyses.
During her internship in the Royal lab, Jelens developed her skills using Benchling to design and analyze cloning experiments, PCR to amplify fragments of interest and perform different cloning strategies, plasmid purification, transformation, and transduction of recombinant plasmids into mammalian cells. All these skills were used to introduce genetic constructs into selected T cells expressing to modulate Treg phenotypes. Jelena also cultured cells, prepared samples for Flow Cytometry, analyzed the data using FlowJo while gaining familiarity with running flow cytometry/FACS instrumentation, mouse colony maintenance and tissue harvesting.
Jelena's future plan is to be a Research Associate where she can multitask using different techniques in investigating Immunological or Neurodegenerative research questions, either in Industry or Academia.
Jelena Vukovic - Engineering Regulatory and Primary T cells to Simultaneously Express Stabilizing Immunosuppressive Payloads and Hybrid SynNotch CAR Receptors - Spring 2021 CCSF Bioscience Internship.pdf
Jelena (right) and her internship mentor in the Roybal Lab at UCSF
