Alicja Bednarska

Job title: 
Graduate Student (Metabolic Biology PhD)
Bio/CV: 

I’m from:
Poland and grew up in The Netherlands and the US. I did my undergraduate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UC Davis.

Outside of lab I love:
Outside of lab I love to dance salsa and bachata, climb, go on walks with my dog, and travel. 

Publications:

Kuo, YW., Bednarska, A., et al. “Development of Agrobacterium tumefaciens infiltration of infectious clones of Grapevine Geminivirus A directly into greenhouse-grown grapevine and Nicotiana benthamiana plants.” Phytopathology. (2022).

Research interests: 

What brought me here:
Research opportunities and the research conducted by the metabolic program faculty. I am also interested in leptin-melanocortin pathway, diet-induced obesity.