Tara Antee

Staff Scientist

Prof. Maria Barna, Stanford University

Pronouns: she/her

I am recent graduate from the University of California, Riverside where I majored in Chemical Engineering with an emphasis in Biochemical Engineering. I am interested in and passionate about biotechnology, bioengineering, CRISPR screening, protein library generation, mAbs, cancer immunotherapy, genetics, translation/gene expression, pharmaceuticals, and biomedical applications of chemical engineering. I attained my first glimpse of the biotechnology industry during an internship involving data entry, pump tubing assemblies and the construction of filtration devices at a biotechnology company when I was 15. Ever since I've been interested pursuing a career in biotechnology, bioengineering, and biosciences. In my time at UC Riverside I worked as an NSF-REU undergraduate researcher in a chemical engineering lab (the Ge lab) focusing on antibody discovery for antibody enzyme inhibition. Post-undergrad, I worked in a bioengineering lab (the Wang lab) at UCSD on cancer immunotherapy. I am now interning in a genetics lab (the Barna lab) at Stanford as part of the Sarafan ChEM-H/IMA Postbac Program in Target Discovery, where I'm working on an independent project. My project is a Novel Genome-wide CRISPR-i/a Screen to Identify Targets for Translation Regulation.