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Sandra Torres

Sandra Torres

Alumni Graduate Student

sandra@walterlab.ucsf.edu

Scientific Interest

Regulation of protein quality control

Current Research Interests

I am studying how ATF6, one of the branches of the mammalian UPR and an ER tethered transcription factor, is regulated under ER stress.

Education

2012 B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – Brown University, USA
2012-Present Ph.D – University of California, San Francisco, USA

Selected Publications

Torres SE, Gallagher CM, Plate L, Gupta M, Liem CR, Guo X, Tian R, Stroud RM, Kampmann M, Weissman JS, Walter P. Ceapins block the unfolded protein response sensor ATF6α by inducing a neomorphic inter-organelle tether. eLife 8:e46595, 2019
(PMID : 31149896) (PDF)

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