BSURF 2018

Where did you go to school and what did you study? I went to school at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. I majored in biology. Over there the course is very broad. So, we learned everything from zoology...

Dr. Kathleen Donohue grew up in New Jersey, but moved to California to attend Stanford. Her family is in the arts field, and she was extremely interested in history and ecology. She loved putting the present in context with the...

Dr. Volkan is originally from Ankara, Turkey and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. While living in Turkey she received her Bachelor's and Masters degrees in Molecular Biology and Genetics, and then came to the United States to complete her Ph.D....

The lab that I work in (Perfect Lab) focuses in further understanding fungal Cryptococcus strains and how it utilizes its genes and proteins to function. My project specifically deals in further studying the fungal strain, Cryptococcus neoformans, that causes meningitis in...

[caption id="attachment_3076" align="aligncenter" width="292"] Dr. Richard Mooney[/caption] With some of his earliest memories being out in the garden, in the woods, and together with the wildlife around his grandparents’ cabin, Dr. Mooney has a lifelong passion for biology. In college,...

Since January, I have had the privilege of working in the McClay lab on a project involving the transfating of cells in the sea urchin embryo. As I begin my journey into science research with all the possibilities ahead, I...

In Dr. Volkan’s lab, the primary focus of my project is to look at the genes that underlie the neural circuits that deal with sexual behavior in flies, specifically in Drosophila melanogaster. We already know about a gene named Fruitless...

Simeon Holmes-What I am working on this summer! Cryptococcus deneoformans is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen that mainly infects immunocompromised patients, including AIDs patients and patients with organ transplant. It infects approximately 280 thousand people and contributes to about 180...

The Murphy Lab focuses on studying heritable epigenetic effects that are induced by various environmental stimuli. One of the latest projects is  Cannabis-Induced Potential Heritability of Epigenetic Revisions in Sperm, or CIPHERS, which focuses on the heritable epigenetic changes associated...

The Pendergast Lab, in which I am working this summer, broadly studies the Abelson family of non-receptor tyrosine kinases. Tyrosine kinases are a subclass of protein kinase, molecules which phosphorylate proteins. In the case of tyrosine kinases, the phosphate group is...

This summer, I am working with my lab on an ongoing effort to answer the broad questions of how stable are transgenerational environmental effects and how do different genotypes affect this stability? We are studying the environmental effect of temperature...

      What happens when you remove cells essential for development? How can cells detect changes around them in order to change their gene expression. Why are these questions even important? Ettensohn and McClay show that the removal of...

Studying the wild population of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in the Amboseli National Park of southern Kenya, the Alberts Lab focuses on how animals respond behaviorally to their social environment. As a matrilocal species, female baboons stay within the group...

The Gersbach lab focuses on developing innovative methods in molecular and genetic engineering for applications in regenerative medicine, treating genetic disease, and enhancing understanding of fundamental biological processes. More specifically, many members of the lab aim to treat Duchenne’s muscular...

As I mentioned before, I am currently working in the Brennan Lab, a Biochemistry lab that has previously done extensive research into the trehalose pathway within fungi. In order to lead into my project, it is important to understand more...

Before you wonder about the title, no, my project does not involve a study on the popular 1960's dance (I just thought it was a fun title). The project I'm actually working on in the Wray lab is to use...