Daphne Pagán Rodríguez is from Ponce. Her previous education includes a B.S. in Biology from UPR Rio Piedras. She is currently a masters student under the supervision of Dr. Nick Schizas.
Diapause is a strategy in which the organism reduces it metabolic activity to survive under extreme environmental
conditions. This proposal aims particularly to study the molecular processes associated with diapause in one of the most abundant marine metazoans, the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa Dana, 1849.
The proposed research will be accomplished by generating
Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) at difference phases of diapause and use of next generation sequencing to maximize the number of sequences extracted from the A. tonsa genome.
You can find out more about her work by visiting the lab's website here: http://cima.uprm.edu/~n_schizas/
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