Manvel Yelanyan joins TKL

TKL welcomes MS graduate student Manvel Yelanyan to the lab!

Manvel is a Bioengineering Master's student at UCLA. He is a double bruin and completed a B.S. in Bioengineering from UCLA in 2022. His current research interests lie in protein engineering where he's currently working on developing orthogonal Cas enzymes that can be used for multiplexed CRISPR-Cas diagnostics. Outside the lab, Manvel likes to discover new restaurants, enjoys cooking and baking, and is a big movie and tv junkie who loves to binge the latest releases.