Veronica Busa
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Postdoc
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Some animals are more prone to cancer than others: While mice get skin cancer relatively easily, naked mole rats and hairy mole rats do not form cancer using the same protocol in a laboratory.
Veronica wants to know why and works on this question as a computational biologist, meaning she analyzes and compares data from mice and mole rats generated in the wet lab to find out more. Since mole rats are not typically used in research, she had to assemble a new hairy mole rat transcriptome from scratch. She enjoys very much working on a highly collaborative project with other scientists on a scientific frontier.