Vivian Bonano

I first joined the UPGG program in the fall of 2001 after completing a Bachelor's in Biology at the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey. Because this is an interdisciplinary program, I had the opportunity to rotate and acquire experience in 3 very different labs before joining Mariano Garcia-Blanco's lab. My work is focused on the in vivo regulation of FGFR2 exon IIIb silencing. To that purpose we created transgenic mice that express fluorescence reporters upon exon silencing and characterized exon IIIb regulation in adult animals. I am currently studying exon IIIb silencing at various embryonic stages.

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