Yatin Mankan

I am currently working towards a BS in Neuroscience at NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences. During my first year at NYU, I joined the lab of Dr. György Buzsáki. In Buzsáki’s Lab, I used mouse models to study neuronal activity in the hippocampus for my spatial learning experiments.

For the past two years, I have spent my summer breaks in Dr. Angela Koehler’s lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, where I studied the c-MYC and n-MYC oncoprotein ubiquitination pathway and its modulation via small molecules. Additionally, I had the opportunity to explore molecular tags to target PAX3-FOXO1 fusion protein complexes, the key oncogenic driver in pediatric alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.

In the Littman Lab, I am interested in studying adaptive immune cell environments in the context of tumors. I am currently working alongside Alan Varghese, a Ph.D. student, studying the effects of various dietary manipulations on the mouse immune system, metabolism, and microbiota.