Grace Mariene

Biography

I am a trainee (PhD student in Bioinformatics), learning and implementing bioinformatics skills to analyze biological data from nematodes that infect livestock. In order to coherently understand the global concern of drug resistance, my research focuses on gene families, specifically, beta tubulins, that are drug targets for anti-parasitic drugs, to understand their role, phylogenetics and possibly unravel new members in each nematode species.  My research role is to carry out research on the identification, characterization, and the evolutionary relationships of beta-tubulins which are drug targets in nematodes.