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In the past few years I've become very interested in vision, so I have been really enjoying my time working in Dr. Ferreira's opthalmology lab. Ophthalmology is the branch of medicine pertaining to eye diseases, and Dr. Ferreira's work focuses...

While I am working in the lab this summer, I will be spending the majority of my time digitizing the photographs of mantis shrimp appendages that my immediate supervisor, Dr. Phil Anderson, and I took during our trip to the...

Cellular biologists are generally concerned with four major cellular processes: mitosis, apoptosis, DNA methylation, and DNA replication. The aim of my project is to design a tool to allow researchers to interrogate these four major cellular processes in a living...

Sjogren's Sydrome is an autoimmune disease,  a disease in which a host own immune system attacks the host, where the victim of attack is a host's salivary and lachrymal glands. Rapid deterioration of these the salivary glands and lachrymal glands...

This week was exhausting terrifying stimulating SCIENCE! I am working with a lovely post doc (Fabienne) in the engineering school and she is showing me how to use the Zetasizer DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) - which will be used in...

This week I had the pleasure to sit down with my PI, Dr. Alexander Hartemink, to talk about his experience as a scientist. He was out of town for the past two weeks, but was extremely nice to spare his...

So a lot of the projects in my lab are working in FLC, a gene also known as Flowering Locus C that is in a lot of plants. So what does it do, you may ask? Have you ever wondered...

This week I dropped by the office of my PI, Dr. Blobe, to ask him some questions about his research, life, and career path. Dr. Blobe went to school at Notre Dame and studied Chemistry with a concentration in Biochemistry....

Today I was very lucky to sit down with my PI Dr. Gersbach and talk about science and career, as well as his lovely children and Durham Bulls Game. Even though I sometimes ask questions that are not related at...

Last week I had the privilege of interviewing my PI, Dr. Amy Schmid, and asking her questions about academia and some more random things just for the fun of it. She was able to take 20 minutes out of her...

Discussions with professors and researchers prior to this summer, faculty discussions hosted by the program, and the tales told to other fellows from their PIs, has led me to the conclusion that the field of scientific research is one typically...

This week, my mentor took time out of his busy schedule to allow me to interview him. I didn’t really know what to expect, but I can tell you right now, I was not disappointed. If anything, I am even...

It seems Dr. Bernhardt was destined to be a scientist. Growing up next to a retired biology teacher gave Dr. Bernhardt the opportunity to go next door and ask questions. She frequently went on camping trips with her family and...

This week I had the opportunity to have lunch with Dr. Bruce Donald and ask him a bit about his life. Dr. Donald graduated from Yale with a major in Russian Language and Literature.  He had been always been interested...

This week I sat down with my primary mentor Jennifer Groh, head of the Groh Lab here at Duke. I’ve been fortunate enough to take on one of her new projects and report directly back to her for the course...

This past week I had the pleasure of meeting one-on-one with my PI (primary investigator of the lab), Dr. Ferreira. During our meeting I got to learn about the events that have led him to where he is today. Growing...

Preparing to interview my p.i., Dr. Nicolas Buchler, was admittedly a daunting task. After all, I had asked him to squeeze thirty minutes out of his tremendously busy schedule so that I could pick his brain with questions that were...

Interview with Dr. Jorn Coers, assistant professor at Duke University Medical Center and PI of the Coers Lab I was blessed to be able to interview the PI of the microbiology lab where I am interning, Dr. Jorn Coers. On...