Faculty Focus: Stacy Malaker s Mission to Characterize Disease-Associated Mucins
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Stanford study reveals new biomolecule
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You’re a first-generation college student. Does that give you a different perspective on the way you go about your research?
I’ve always had to fight for things I wanted in life. It’s made me tenacious. If somebody tells me I can’t do something, I’m going to work that much harder to get what I want.
How would you describe your work with mass spectrometry for a general audience?
In mass spec, we essentially blow things apart, and based on the way they fall apart, we can figure out what was there previously. It’s like doing mini puzzles to figure out what structures you’re looking at. I’m really interested in sugar modifications in proteins, so I specifically look at changes in those sugar modifications between healthy and diseased states and try to develop new ways of understanding that process.