Piper Zajac
Biography
Research: Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast with a high mortality rate
due to its acquisition of antifungal resistance during clinical treatment. While
several mechanisms of drug resistance have been identified in isolates recovered
from patients, such as copy number variation and single base pair mutations, the
importance of much of the genetic variability among strains remains unexplored.
My project combines bioinformatics and molecular biology with de novo genome
