Biography:
Jeffrey Marano studied Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, where he received his bachelor's degree. While there, he worked in the labs of Drs. Wilson Wong and Douglass Densmore where he engineered biocomputers using CRISPR technologies. During this time, he led a team of undergraduate students from Boston University at the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition, where the team received a gold medal. After graduating, he enrolled in the Translation Biology, Medicine, and Health doctoral program at Virginia Tech. There, he joined the lab of Dr. James Weger-Lucarelli, where he studies viral evolution and reverse genetics.
Title : Evolutionary pressure from cross-reactive flavivirus serums generates mutations with altered serum sensitivity and fitness in mammalian cells