Muskan Bansal

Gene therapy, immunology, biotechnology, and bioinformatics

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2024-Present
Advisor: Christian Kastrup, PhD

Virginia Commonwealth University, 2020-2022
Advisors: Michael Rosenberg, PhD & Brian Verelli, PhD
Project: Modeling PhyloP conservation patterns across evolution time in vertebrates

Virginia Commonwealth University, 2020-2022
Advisor: Christopher Ehrhardt, PhD
Project: Developing machine learning approaches for extracting biologically relevant features from microscope data

Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019-2021
Advisor: Natalie Dautovich, PhD
Projects: 1) Sleep quality as a mediator in the pathway of stress and cold symptom severity, 2) Sleep quality as an indirect link between perceived heart health and life satisfaction, 3) The role of social support between subjective-objective sleep duration discrepancies and depressive outcomes

University of New Mexico, 2019
Advisor: Mara Steinkamp, PhD
Project Title: Understanding ErbB3 signalling and its effect on spheroid formation 

Publications

Bansal M, Musa SS, Mulpuru M. Determining the optimal sleep pattern to promote glymphatic clearance of amyloid-beta in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease: A research protocol. URNCST Journal. 2021 Nov19: 5(11).DOI:10.26685/urncst.324

Meeting Abstracts

Bansal M, Ghose SM, Dautovich ND. Sleep Quality as a Pathway from Stress to Cold Symptom Severity. Poster presentation at SLEEP 2021, Virtual, June 2021 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab072.130

Bansal M, Ghose SM, Dautovich ND. Sleep Quality: A Mediator in the Pathway of Stress and Cold Symptom Severity. Poster presentation at Virginia's Collegiate Honors Council 2021 Honors Conference, Virtual, April 2021

Bansal M, Ghose SM, Dautovich ND. Worried, tired, and dissatisfied: Examining sleep quality as an indirect link between perceived heart health and life satisfaction. Poster Presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Virtual, November 2020

Bansal, M, Bansal V. Cyber-biosecurity: Protecting Biomedical and Patient Data in the Cloud. Oral presentation at theTriangle InfoSeCon, Virtual, October 2020

Bansal M, Burke DL, Steinkamp MP. Understanding ErbB3 Signaling and its Effect on Spheroid Formation. Poster presentation at the University of New Mexico Summer Research Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, August 2019 DOI: 10.25886/6a01-5k31

Blaine C, Nieves J, Tuazon EM, Bansal M, Ghose SM, Sabet SM, Dautovich ND. Friend and family social support mediate the relationship between subjective-objective sleep duration discrepancies and depressive outcomes. Poster presentation at the Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creativity, Richmond, VA. April 2019

Abilmona N, Anumola R, Bansal M., et. al. Characterization of phages infecting Bacillus Thuringiensis. Poster presentation at the 2018 Fall Phage Phare, Harrisonburg, VA. December 2018 

General Interests

Badminton, cricket, and all around foodie