People

Alison R. Frand, Ph.D., Principal Investigator

Dr. Frand joined the Department of Biological Chemistry in the School of Medicine at UCLA in 2007. She began studying the molting cycle of C. elegans as a post-doctoral research fellow in Gary Ruvkun’s lab at Harvard Medical School. As a graduate student in Chris Kaiser’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she characterized the major, conserved pathway for protein disulfide bond formation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of yeast. Alison earned her bachelor degree from Cornell University, where she worked in Tom Fox’s lab.