1) Please read this interview with Dr. Johnson, published in the newsletter of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/120921/johnson-wants-every-student-to-feel-they-belong
And this brief article: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/tracy-johnson-and-the-hhmi-pathways-program
2) Please read a laypersons summary of some of Dr. Johnsons recent work on RNA, published in the magazine Research Features: From beer to brains how yeast molecular genetics prove the importance of introns, Research Features, Dec. 2017
https://researchfeatures.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dr-Tracy-Johnson-UCLA-Genetics.pdf
And this brief article: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/tracy-johnson-and-the-hhmi-pathways-program
2) Please read a laypersons summary of some of Dr. Johnsons recent work on RNA, published in the magazine Research Features: From beer to brains how yeast molecular genetics prove the importance of introns, Research Features, Dec. 2017
https://researchfeatures.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dr-Tracy-Johnson-UCLA-Genetics.pdf
After reviewing these articles, write a 200 word or more reflection with your responses to what you read. Please discuss these questions:
1. What was most interesting or most confusing about the articles? What new questions do you have after reviewing these articles?
2. What are introns, and why is it matter that they are spliced? And, what do these articles tell you about the types of people that do science?
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Biology: RNA