Janae Gayle

Janae Gayle is an undergraduate at UCSB. The area of research she specializes in focuses on utilizing specific softwares to analyze the effects of certain perturbations on human induced pluripotent stem cell -derived cardiomyocytes. Using image analysis tools, like CONTRAX and Sarc-graph, to analyze how treatments that mimic disease or drug interactions affect cell morphology, including the alignment, lengthening, and size of the sarcomeres - the motor units of muscle cells.