Host: Northwestern University
Tejaswini was researching biochemistry and molecular biology of Alzheimer’s disease at Department of Neurobiology, Klein Lab, Northwestern University, Illinois. The unifying aim of her lab was to ‘Make Alzheimer’s a Memory!’ Alzheimer’s is a current pressing ailment worldwide, numbers expected to rise to 70 million by 2030. Her lab had discovered the Amyloid Beta Oligomers, the bad guys of AD, in 1998. Broadly put, Tejaswini’s work was centered around arresting Abeta Oligomers’ fibrillogenesis by chemically cross-linking and hence stabilizing them, thereby preventing the formation of Amyloid fibrils. She will be using immunotechniques like High Precision Coomassie Assay, Western Blot, Silver Staining, Immunofluorescence Assays to detect and quantify AbO.