Deana Wood, B.Sc.

My research in the Lau Lab aims to better understand how expression of pluripotency genes contributes to the pathogenesis of germ cell tumors. I utilize immunoprecipitation techniques to study endogenous protein interactions in germ cell tumors, in addition to manipulating protein expression via synthetic binding proteins, cloning, and RNA interference. I also maintain and characterize cell cultures from patient tumor samples using karyotyping and immunofluorescent staining of tumor markers.