July 2, 2022
By: Piper Epstein
A day in the life of a microbiome scientist: My day at the David lab consists of a lot of sample processing. Human fecal samples don't just automatically go through a machine and become pretty strings of As, Ts, Cs,...
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June 30, 2022
By: Emma Sardy
What drove you to your love of science? Dr. Sullivan originally thought she wanted to be a writer when she was young, but enjoyed her science classes as well. In high school, her track coach encouraged her to apply for...
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By: Rena Ouyang
A day in my lab typically starts off with sitting in front of a microscope. I put in my earbuds to listen to music that keeps me in the zone. I put on gloves and prepare to inspect a sample...
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June 29, 2022
By: Shivam Singh
My mentor, Shaun, was interested in science and technology long before his work today at the intersection of neurobiology and biomedical engineering. He majored in engineering and specialized in biomedical engineering at the University of Cambridge, possessing a propensity for...
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June 27, 2022
By: David Bearden
Born in Beijing, China, Yiyang Gong immigrated to the UnitedDelaware at the age of eight where he completed elementary and middle school. He completed high school in New Jersey, and later studied at the California Institute of Technology for his...
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June 26, 2022
By: Amelia Cangialosi
Ever since Dr. John Pearson was a kid, he knew he wanted to be a scientist. He is now living out that dream with his own lab, the Pearson lab. Earlier this week, I had the privilege of sitting down...
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By: Natalia Bojorquez
You know how a lot of the times when you look at someone very successful you imagine that they must have always known what they wanted to do, had a detailed plan of how they were going to do it,...
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By: Lauren Sar
The principal investigator in the Horner lab, Dr. Stacy Horner, is the co-director of the Duke Center for RNA Biology and an associate professor of medicine and of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke, having opened her lab at the university in...
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By: Ariella Ruiz
At the Dong Lab, the principal investigator Ke Dong has had an interesting journey through her studies and research. While interviewing her this week, I learned more about how she became interested in her field of science and research. She...
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By: Sid Ghanta
Dr. Varghese was born and raised in India, traveling around the country frequently due to her father's post in the military. She did primary and secondary school all over the country, although mainly in the southern state of Kerala. Afterward,...
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By: Jordan Reaves
I really enjoyed getting to chat with Dr. Koeberl about his journey, mine, and science in general. It was nice to “break the ice”, get to know a bit more about him, and get some advice moving forward. We started...
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By: Tochi Onuegbu
It is not every day you get to meet someone who lived through an important war in Nigerian history. Nevertheless, there I was, in the presence of my principal investigator, Dr. Soman Abraham. Born in Ethiopia but growing up in...
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By: Morayo Abbey-Bada
The scientific journey of Dr. Volkan started in Turkey where she was born and completed her Undergraduate and Masters in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Interestingly, she initially had a strong interest in film but decided to go down the science...
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By: Laura Scarpelli
The endless opportunities in the USA have drawn numerous international students to its realm of scientific research, one of them being my mentor YingYu Lin. YingYu was born in Taiwan; her older sister and she would love to walk around...
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By: Ashley Alcantar Magana
The Chair of Cell Biology at Duke University Medical Center, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor for Research in Molecular Biology, Professor of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, and Director of the Transgenic Mouse Facility, Dr. Scott Soderling began his research journey...
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June 25, 2022
By: Sam Shi
My mentor is Rachel Keener. She is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Ko lab in the MGM department. She went to the University of Georgia and majored in genetics. Her first interest in biology, particularly genetics, stemmed from her...
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By: Piper Epstein
My graduate mentor, Jun Zeng, is a 3rd year MGM student at the David Lab. Jun grew up in China, where he recounts loving "taking things apart" and learning how things worked. This love for discovery and exploration has carried...
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June 24, 2022
By: Yaneli Guerra Hernandez
In undergrad, Diao studied at the University of Nanjing, China majoring in biotechnology. Cultural values drove him to pursue a career path as a scientist, rather than attending medical school (a contrasting priority to that of the US). Funnily enough,...
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