Rachel Berg

Rachel received her BS in Biochemistry from SUNY at Buffalo (University at Buffalo) in 2017. Currently she is a member of the Moseley lab in the Biochemistry and Cell Biology department where she is working on how cell size is coordinated with the cell cycle through regulation of the mitotic inhibitor Wee1. The lab members use the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as their model organism, and in this system Wee1 is sequestered into plasma membrane "nodes" in a manner dependent on SAD family kinase Cdr2. Rachel is really interested in the specifics of Cdr2 activity and its mechanism of action against Wee1, and how this in turns affects cell size at division. Outside of the lab Rachel enjoys riding her bike on the rail trail, hiking, board games, making all sorts of King Arthur baked goods, and knitting.