July 27, 2019
By: Shannon Houser
This has been a truly amazing summer and an experience I will never forget. I was not expecting to love my lab and the research as much as I do. I was also not expecting to meet so many amazing...
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July 21, 2019
By: Shannon Houser
Over the past seven weeks, we have heard from some of the most amazing professors at Duke. We have not only heard about their groundbreaking research, but also about their personal lives and their path to success. Among all those...
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July 14, 2019
By: Shannon Houser
Parkinson’s Disease is a common neurodegenerative disease characterized by the death of dopaminergic neurons, which can be caused by oxidative stress in the mitochondria and subsequent DNA damage. It is known that the mutated variant of the LRRK2 gene causes...
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July 7, 2019
By: Shannon Houser
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." ~Confucious I truly love the work that I do and the people I work with. I am so lucky that my days are...
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June 30, 2019
By: Shannon Houser
Everyone had amazing chalk talks and I feel like I learned so much! This week, I especially enjoyed Ella's chalk talk on making mutant enzymes that can degrade plastic. Although I am fascinated with the brain and the molecular biology...
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June 22, 2019
By: Shannon Houser
Dr. Sanders is an amazing mentor and I have truly enjoyed getting to know more about her and her incredible research during these last three weeks. I first met Dr. Laurie Sanders when she gave a talk to the SPIRE...
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June 16, 2019
By: Shannon Houser
On my very first day my amazing PI, Dr. Sanders, handed me a sheet of paper with three goals for this summer. I was very surprised that I was able to start working on my first goal, learning mammalian cell...
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June 9, 2019
By: Shannon Houser
I am so excited that I was able to squeeze a High School Musical reference in and even more excited to be starting my BSURF journey with the Sanders Lab. I can already tell from the first week back in...
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