Muskan Bansal
G1 Student
Faculty Advisor
- Christian Kastrup, PhD, Biochemistry
Locations
- Medical Scientist Training Program
Contact Information
Education
Research Interests
Gene therapy, immunology, biotechnology, and bioinformatics
Research Experience
91ɫƵ, 2024-Present
Advisor: Christian Kastrup, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2020-2022
Advisors: Michael Rosenberg, PhD & Brian Verelli, PhD
Project: Modeling PhyloP conservation patterns across evolution time in vertebrates
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2020-2022
Advisor: Christopher Ehrhardt, PhD
Project: Developing machine learning approaches for extracting biologically relevant features from microscope data
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019-2021
Advisor: Natalie Dautovich, PhD
Projects: 1) Sleep quality as a mediator in the pathway of stress and cold symptom severity, 2) Sleep quality as an indirect link between perceived heart health and life satisfaction, 3) The role of social support between subjective-objective sleep duration discrepancies and depressive outcomes
University of New Mexico, 2019
Advisor: Mara Steinkamp, PhD
Project Title: Understanding ErbB3 signalling and its effect on spheroid formation
Publications
Bansal M, Musa SS, Mulpuru M. Determining the optimal sleep pattern to promote glymphatic clearance of amyloid-beta in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease: A research protocol. URNCST Journal. 2021 Nov19: 5(11).DOI:10.26685/urncst.324
Meeting Abstracts
Bansal M, Ghose SM, Dautovich ND. Sleep Quality as a Pathway from Stress to Cold Symptom Severity. Poster presentation at SLEEP 2021, Virtual, June 2021 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab072.130
Bansal M, Ghose SM, Dautovich ND. Sleep Quality: A Mediator in the Pathway of Stress and Cold Symptom Severity. Poster presentation at Virginia's Collegiate Honors Council 2021 Honors Conference, Virtual, April 2021
Bansal M, Ghose SM, Dautovich ND. Worried, tired, and dissatisfied: Examining sleep quality as an indirect link between perceived heart health and life satisfaction. Poster Presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Virtual, November 2020
Bansal, M, Bansal V. Cyber-biosecurity: Protecting Biomedical and Patient Data in the Cloud. Oral presentation at theTriangle InfoSeCon, Virtual, October 2020
Bansal M, Burke DL, Steinkamp MP. Understanding ErbB3 Signaling and its Effect on Spheroid Formation. Poster presentation at the University of New Mexico Summer Research Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, August 2019 DOI: 10.25886/6a01-5k31
Blaine C, Nieves J, Tuazon EM, Bansal M, Ghose SM, Sabet SM, Dautovich ND. Friend and family social support mediate the relationship between subjective-objective sleep duration discrepancies and depressive outcomes. Poster presentation at the Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creativity, Richmond, VA. April 2019
Abilmona N, Anumola R, Bansal M., et. al. Characterization of phages infecting Bacillus Thuringiensis. Poster presentation at the 2018 Fall Phage Phare, Harrisonburg, VA. December 2018
General Interests
Badminton, cricket, and all around foodie