Maria Aristizabal
Assistant Professor
Biology Department
Dr. Maria Aristizabal was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia working with Dr. Michael Kobor and the University of Toronto working with Dr. Marla Sokolowski. She is an expert in molecular biology with an emphasis on transcription regulation and epigenetic modifications. She has utilized yeast and flies to study mechanisms of transcription regulation in response to environmental perturbations. She has experience with a wide range of molecular techniques including gene expression microarrays, ChIP-chip and associated analysis methods. Her work will identify genes and histone modifications that change in response to food deprivation, and how these are modulated by natural genetic variation, developmental stage, and sex.