Bio
Austin is a sophomore studying biochemistry. He is the Stupka media co-chair and director of the 2024 Stupka promotional video. Currently, he works in Dr. Julien Roche’s lab, and plans to earn a master’s degree in biochemistry. From there, Austin hopes to work in medicine or pharmaceuticals. His project focuses on a transcription factor Activation Transcription Factor 4 (ATF4), which is disordered and ubiquitously expressed throughout the human body. The overall goal of his project is to explore how multisite phosphorylation affects the transcriptional activity of ATF4.