July 28, 2019
By: Claire Yin
As May turned to June and I found myself on a flight back to Durham, I was nervous, apprehensive, excited, curious. I wasn’t sure what to expect–how I’d get along with the other students in the program, if I would...
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July 21, 2019
By: Claire Yin
As a veteran scientist and Nobel laureate, Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz had much to share to our group of budding researchers when he came in for a faculty talk a few weeks ago. Heading into our sophomore year, we are...
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July 14, 2019
By: Claire Yin
Brachyury is a transcription factor that has been determined to be an essential component in the course of sea urchin embryonic development. We know that it is expressed at both the blastopore and stomodael opening of the embryo, but inactivates...
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July 7, 2019
By: Claire Yin
Building a gene regulatory network, I think, is sort of like solving a jigsaw puzzle. Little by little, discovering which pieces go where–through logic, through the process of elimination, through experimentation. My weeks in the McClay lab have usually looked...
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June 30, 2019
By: Claire Yin
The chalk talks we presented and listened to earlier this week were all really interesting, and everyone did a wonderful job of explaining what projects they're working on this summer. But Michael's chalk talk especially stood out to me, because...
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June 23, 2019
By: Claire Yin
As an undergraduate, Dr. David McClay was a man of many interests, curious and adventurous and carefree. He was fascinated by all that his school had to offer him, and spent his four years at Penn State exploring anthropology, philosophy,...
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June 16, 2019
By: Claire Yin
As high school biology teachers often remind us, we’re more closely related to other animals than we might generally like to think. We all eventually, when traced back far enough, stem from a single ancestor. And despite our distinct and...
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June 9, 2019
By: Claire Yin
This is new to me. Everything here. My first research experience has been a whirlwind of pipetting and centrifuging and following protocol this past week–a routine of mundane tasks in the lab that, to me, have yet to seem so...
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