Taivan Batjargal

Research

     Taivan is interested in the underlying mechanisms of the integrated stress response (ISR). He is developing a novel optogenetic protein kinase receptor driven ISR circuit to acutely tune the levels of stress response that a cell experiences. Leveraging this tool, he studies how stress dynamics affect the cell's response to stress, and the phenotypes that result from it, be it death or adaptation. Additionally, spatiotemporal precision of the tool is utilized to observe cell to cell communication of stress events, and effects of ISR on the ECM.