June 18, 2021
By: Irene Jonathan
Although I missed one day of chalk talks, the ones I did see were super interesting and impressive. I particularly enjoyed Lola’s chalk talk about morning glories. It’s a field that’s incredibly different from my own and I think that’s...
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June 16, 2021
By: Misaki Foster
On the final day for ChalkTalks, most of the presenters- including myself- focused on ecology in our research. Personally, out of all of the amazing presentations that occurred over the three days, the one that stuck out to me the...
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June 15, 2021
By: Anuj Som
The past week's Chalk Talks carried lots of interesting information about the amazing research being conducted here at Duke. One of the presentations that caught my eye was by Nico Rey, who talked about his experiences at the Asokan Lab...
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By: Emily Prudot Gonzalez
I really enjoyed listening through everyone's chalk talks last week. As more people kept presenting, I felt like I was able to tap into so many different subfields and essential questions in biological research. Biology extends from observing the neural...
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By: Izzy Costanzo
This past week, I was completely in awe of all the amazing research being conducted through the BSURF program this summer. Everyone did an incredible job explaining their projects and practicing the communication part of science that is so important....
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June 14, 2021
By: George Romero
Now that we have passed the halfway point of BSURF, I realize more and more that science is an art of communication. While the experiments we conduct and the data we collect have their own intrinsic value, as Dr. Grunwald...
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By: Bryan Rego
As the world is returning to normal after the pandemic new methods to potentially improve injection of drugs into the body have increased in value. When a drug, like a vaccine, is injected into a body it is put in...
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By: Joe Laforet Jr.
This past week we were tasked with going on stage in front of our peers and presenting an eight minute summary of our projects with nothing but a dry erase marker and a whiteboard. While I thought this experience was...
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June 13, 2021
By: Ali Pagliery
I particularly enjoyed Colby’s talk about his work in the Alberts lab, which deals with variations in baboon social behavior. I have always found animal behavior to be a very interesting topic, so I was excited to learn about one...
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By: Lola Adewale
As I am working with plants too, Ali's chalk talk on pitcher plants stood out to me. Ali's project involves looking at different species of pitcher plants that grows in different regions. Her lab is analyzing going in these different...
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By: Nicolas Rey
This week’s “chalk talks'' were very entertaining and it was exciting to see how my peers took ownership and pride in each of their respective projects. Last week, over the course of three days, each of the individuals in the...
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By: Min Ju Lee
As someone who had no prior exposure to biomedical engineering, this week's chalk talks were especially enlightening. Out of the engineering related talks, Neica's talk on developing drugs for ischemic strokes stood out to me because the methods used to...
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By: Jenna White
Throughout my experience in B-SURF prior to this week, I have been immersed in engineering approaches to various biological issues. However, this week, I was exposed to multiple different topics through the Chalk Talks, and I was amazed by how...
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By: Camila Rodriguez
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing about the different projects everyone was working on this summer, and was pleasantly surprised to see a large variety in the topics. One such presentation that interested me was Ben’s talk about cell migration. He explained...
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By: Alexus Roberts
I found Lali’s talk on her summer project very interesting, not only for the content, but also for the practical applications of her work. Water is an essential aspect of life, for both humans and other animals, and the quality...
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By: Colby Cheshire
I really enjoyed Xitlali Ramirez's talk, which focused on her research regarding the effects of urban development on local watersheds and their capabilities to act as insect habitats. What drew me to her research was how much it stood out...
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By: Megan Stone
This week, I really enjoyed seeing what everyone was working on in their labs. There was an impressive amount of variety, and everybody’s topics were incredibly interesting. 8 minutes is not a lot of time to capture one’s project, and...
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By: Nadeska Montalvan
This past week in BSURF, we had chalk talks all week. What this meant was that every single BSURFer stood up in front of the rest of us and explained what they are researching this summer while drawing helpful diagrams...
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