Saima Akhter

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Doctoral Candidate

I am Saima, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Genetics. My research focuses on understanding how different small RNA pathways are coordinated within germ granules in the C. elegans germline and how this coordination determines the fate of transcripts.

Education:

MS in Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (2022)
Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 
BS in Botany (2019)
Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Selected Publications:

Echoes of the past: inheritance of gene silencing across generations. An educational primer for use with “A unified framework governing the establishment and maintenance of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.”

PMID: 42505024 doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyag173