Nina Gao
Biomedical Sciences PhD Program


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Nina Gao
Nina grew up in the quiet town on Chino Hills, California. As an undergraduate researcher, she studied the effects of dietary short chain fatty acids in Salmonella colitis in the laboratory of Dr. Manuella Raffatellu at UC Irvine. After her bachelor's degree in microbiology and immunology, she worked as a laboratory technician in Dr. Daniel Salomon's lab at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, studying RNA binding protein splicing complexes mediating alternative splicing in the activation of CD4+ T cells.

Nina is a PhD graduate student in the biomedical sciences program at UCSD. Her research examines the virulence mechanisms of Group A Streptococcus and the corresponding host immune response, with a focus on the role of the species-defining group A carbohydrate antigen, global transcriptional regulation, and vaccine development. Her research is currently supported by the Global Health Institute  and the Genetics Training Program  at UC San Diego.