PhD candidate
University of California San Francisco
Dina Buitrago Silva is a fifth year PhD candidate at the University of California, San Francisco in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics graduate program. Dina studies transporters in the brain and how genetics plays a role in regulating their function. She is currently studying the functional genomics of the GABA transporter, GAT-1, and how rare coding variants in this protein cause epilepsy in children/young adults. This work has been funded by the NSF GRFP and the American Epilepsy Society. Previously, Dina has characterized an orphan transporter in the SLC22A transporter superfamily found primarily in the brain, SLC22A15, and has work published in this area. This is Dina's first year attending ASCPT and presenting her most recent work on GAT-1.
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