Alumni
Raina Sacksteder
03/2021-12/2022
Fun Fact: She runs the Etsy shop FrogsOnSwings!
Area of focus: mechanism of circadian clocks in zebrafish, impact of Spn exposure
Ask me to help with: zebrafish, Tol2 transgenesis, circadian clock
Bio
Raina graduated from Reed College in 2020 with a B.A. in Biology. She completed her undergraduate thesis in the Cerveny Lab, where she studied the gene targets of retinoic acid during retinal neurogenesis in the developing zebrafish eye. A summer position in the Ott Lab at UCSF sparked her passion for host-microbe interactions, which lead her to pursue a PhD in Microbial Biology and Pathogenesis at UCSC and join the Kimmey Lab in 2021. Her research uses zebrafish to understand how infection alters the circadian clock.