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Perry Wasdin
University of West Georgia
Carlos Lopez lab
I am modeling treatment resistance and phenotypic plasticity in small cell lung cancer using single cell RNA-seq data to build and perturb a Boolean gene regulatory network. I hope to gain mechanistic insight into how tumors are able to develop resistance to chemotherapy, but I am also interested in the more fundamental question of how cell identity is able to change and even dedifferentiate in response to environmental factors.