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Comparison Of The Regulatory Dynamics Of Related Small Gene Regulatory Networks That Control The Response To Cold Shock In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Natalie Williams
Comparison Of The Regulatory Dynamics Of Related Small Gene Regulatory Networks That Control The Response To Cold Shock In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Natalie Williams
Honors Thesis
The Dahlquist Lab investigates the global, transcriptional response of Sacchromyces cerevisiae, baker’s yeast, to the environmental stress of cold shock, using DNA microarrays for the wild type strain and strains deleted for a particular regulatory transcription factor. Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) consist of transcription factors (TF), genes, and the regulatory connections between them that control the resulting mRNA and protein expression levels. We use mathematical modeling to determine the dynamics of the GRN controlling the cold shock response to determine the relative influence of each transcription factor in the network. A family of GRNs has been derived from the …