Lydia Contreras

Nonlinear Systems IGERT
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY



I am interested in understanding and manipulating biological complex systems. In particular, my research focuses in studying the structural and functional interactions that take place between the rRNA and protein components of the ribosome, the synthetic machinery of the cell. One of the ultimate goals of my project is to be able to re-program some of these interactions, by means of genetic manipulations, in order to improve ribosome functionality.

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