James Bruns, B.S.

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow

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Education:

B.S. Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, 2023, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Languages Spoken: German

Biography

James is a second-year Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow in the Quantitative Virology and Evolution Unit led by Dr. Patrick Dolan. James’ work is focused on studying the viral kinetics of poliovirus (PV1) in the context of IRES mutants and how they interact within cells. The hope is to understand the interplay between two phenotypically distinct viruses using luminescent assays and computational modeling.