August 4, 2016
By: Chad Munger
The faculty seminars were always brimming with new information, and not just on the speakers’ fields. Each offered advice to us as young scientists. The multitude of career paths by the faculty demonstrated the unpredictability of the future and helped...
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August 2, 2016
By: Chad Munger
Dr. Charlie Gersbach’s seminar was one of the most interesting talks presented during the BSURF program. What really struck me about his path to where he is now was his consideration between the environments of working in industry versus academia....
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July 25, 2016
By: Chad Munger
Going into the program, I certainly expected experiments to completely fail. I expected them to return completely unexpected results. I expected them to be unidentifiably wrong in some way. But what I did not expect is for the experiments to...
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July 19, 2016
By: Chad Munger
All of the chalk talks last week were extremely interesting. It was a great opportunity to understand what everyone was researching. One of the most fascinating talks was Ajile’s presentation. I had never heard of ‘broad neutralizing antibodies’ before. They...
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July 11, 2016
By: Chad Munger
Lab starts everyday at 7:00. On Mondays, a general lab meeting lasts until 9:00 in a room shared by the labs on the same floor. During these meetings, each person describes what they have done in the past week and...
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July 5, 2016
By: Chad Munger
The Bohórquez Lab focuses on the connection between the gut and the brain, especially how the brain perceives what the gut feels. Team members have performed a neurotracing using a monosynaptic rabies virus. The modified rabies virus they used could...
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June 27, 2016
By: Chad Munger
Dr. Bohórquez is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant research Professor in Neurobiology at Duke University. He refers to himself as a “gut-brain neuroscientist” because he studies the way that the GI tract connects with the brain. Becoming a...
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June 19, 2016
By: Chad Munger
I have always been a fan of science. I read The Big Book of Knowledge as a child. I subscribed to Scientific American. But what I never have been is a scientist. The mindset of a fan of science...
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