Katherine Alexander

Katherine Alexander, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Research Interest:
Mechanisms of p53 regulation in cancer

Education:
B.A. Carleton College
Ph.D. Cornell University

Contact:
kaalexa@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Fellowship or Grant:
2018-2021 F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA): Modulation of wild type and mutant p53 by HMGA1
2020 Marlene Shlomchik Fellowship in Cancer Research

Resources:
TSA-seq analysis: a bioinformatic pipeline using the DiffBind R package to detect of differential regions in TSA-seq data
https://github.com/katealexander/TSAseq-Alexander2020

Figure making: a set of instructions (mostly in R) for how to make Figures present in my published papers
https://github.com/katealexander/Published-Figures

Semi-manual distance measuring: instructions and code for how to co-opt [rajlabimagetools](https://github.com/arjunrajlaboratory/rajlabimagetools/wiki) to measure distances
https://github.com/katealexander/distanceToSpeckle-semiManual

Blob analyzer: measures blob (like nuclear speckles!) characteristics in cells and integrates with RNA or DNA-FISH data
https://github.com/arjunrajlaboratory/rajlabimagetools/wiki/Blob-Analyzer

Research