Alex Nesta, MS
Predoctoral Associate
Combines computational and wet lab techniques to investigate the impact of transposable elements on disease transcriptomes.
Alex is a graduate student affiliated with UCONN Health and The Jackson Laboratory. Under the supervision of Dr. Christine Beck, he is investigating the mechanisms that regulate splicing of exons derived from transposable elements.
Education and experience
Education
Master of Science - 2017
Molecular and Cell Biology
Quinnipiac University - Hamden, CT
Bachelor of Science - 2015
Biomolecular Sciences
Central Connecticut State University - New Britan, CT
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Research HighlightJanuary 26, 2022The consequences of alternative splicing in breast cancer
JAX researchers used long-read mRNA sequencing to catalog all mRNAs in primary breast cancer samples and revealed previously undocumented mRNA isoforms that can change protein function and may contribute to cancer progression and therapy response.