Sampreet Choppala
Welcome to Sampreet Choppala's website! Here you will find a summary of my endeavors as a current student to one day become a doctor! Hopefully the skills I have mentioned throughout this website aligns with your projects and can be employable for your research! Nonetheless if my interests and experiences stand out for you, please contact me by visiting the contact page.
Research Interests
In the world of science and medicine, there is an infinite plethora of investigations and discoveries to be made. Every waking second, an individual’s curiosity can spark enough inspiration to lead an entire generation towards a field of study. Outstanding women nobel prize winners such as Jennifer Doudna for modeling the entirety of CRISPR in a way that ended years of speculation or Frances Arnold who pioneered the use of Directed Evolution to manually engineer enzymes themselves come to mind as they have become a source of motivation for myself in diving deeper into the medical and scientific realm to understand the inner workings of the human body and mind. In fact, through the assistance of a lab professor and class setting, I was able to conduct my own CRISPR gene editing experiment to manipulate the genetic code of a species of Yeast to produce both expected and unexpected results. Due to my knowledge of molecular biology, continuing to study in this prospect is extremely valuable for me.
From personal research, examples of molecular based experiments that greatly interest me align with analyzing the molecular basis of global transcriptional silencing of the female egg prior to developing into an embryo, or identifying a purpose of the unknown group of enzymes known as Peroxidasins as being vital in development of forming physical structures from birth as observed from experimenting on the roundworm species C. elegans! Nonetheless, analyzing the function or identity of a molecular species equipped with my current knowledge of molecular biology is something that brings me great joy and hopefully will work as a catalyst in improving the confines of my grasp of the molecular world.
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Moving more into medicinal forms of research, an area that I would love to learn more about encompasses oncogenic and stem cell research such as understanding the biology of the leukemia stem cell (LSC) that is the basis for one of the most common cancers, leukemia. An example could be identifying how LSC differs in terms of their production and regulation from other stem cells within our body to find potential preventative methods in preventing its cancerous growth within the body.
