June 22, 2023
By: Hannah Baetge
During this summer, I have had the privilege of working in Karl Dimiter (Dimi) Bissig’s lab. While I was expected to have a conventional meeting with him, asking about his educational background, studies, and teaching experiences, my curiosity led me...
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June 18, 2023
By: Catherine Pyne
Dorsal closure is an essential developmental process during embryogenesis in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. It is preceded by germ band retraction, in which the germ band (made up of the developing germ layers) retracts and exposes the dorsal side...
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By: Emma Podol
Welcome back to the blog! Week two of working on epilepsy research under the McNamara Lab has flown by! Much of my time has been devoted to working with the ImageJ software used to analyze our research, but I’ve also...
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By: Jaqueline Villanueva Govea (she/her/hers)
This summer, I am working in the Perfect Lab. The Perfect Lab focuses on understanding fungal pathogenesis at the molecular and genetic level. I am working specifically with the pathogen known as Cryptococcus neoformans which is a type of fungus...
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By: Riley Reeves
My lab was sent Arabidopsis thaliana seeds by another lab and asked to bulk the lines and analyze their phenotypes. In practice, "bulking the lines" entails a lot of plant care: planting seeds on plates, transplanting them to soil, watering, tying...
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By: Jarvis Savage
My research project for this summer will be to analyze various elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs). ELPs are polypeptides that incorporate the 5 amino acid long sequence of Val-Pro-Gly-Xaa-Gly, where Xaa represents an unspecific amino acid. ELPs are a kind of artificial...
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By: Lisa Garnier
The Gersbach lab is home to a variety of projects, the one thing they all have in common is that these projects focus on genetics. My specific project focuses on the genetics behind Prader-Willi syndrome. Patients with this syndrome exhibit...
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By: Kennedy Truitt
My research this summer in the Animal Locomotion Lab consists of analyzing humans and their gait during movements such as walking with stiff legs, running, and walking compliantly. For reference, walking with stiff legs is the typical human gait, while...
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By: Wigdan Hissein
This summer I am working in the Silva Lab! As most of you may know (from Dr.Silva’s faculty talk), there are so many fascinating features of our lab! After completing nearly 3 weeks of hands-on training and exploration … I...
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By: Erika Rispoli
The prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), has increased rapidly over the past two decades. As such, much research has gone into the root causes and mechanisms of these...
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By: Kibir Elias
Pseudouridine is a modification in eukaryotic RNA that, although it is the most common type of RNA modification, is not fully understood in terms of its function, especially during plant immune responses. This project intends on discovering the effects and...
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By: Christopher Kang
Now that we have gotten all of the laboratory training out of the way, I was finally able to start more hands-on learning and practicing techniques that will be fundamental to my project throughout the summer. So far, I have...
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By: Arielle Kim
This summer, I will compare lichenized cyanobacteria communities to environmental cyanobacteria communities (cyanobacteria living outside the lichens) to inform how lichen-forming fungi associate with their cyanobacterial partners. For context, lichens are organisms made of symbiotic associations between algae/cyanobacteria and fungi....
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By: Maia Goel
This summer, I’m working in the Baugh Lab studying the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans and the effects of L1 arrest. C. elegans larvae that hatch into an environment without any nutrients are arrested in the first larval stage of development (L1)....
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By: Frank Lin
Ferroptosis is a form of regulated cell death that is being investigated as a possible treatment for cancer. The mechanism of ferroptosis involves a buildup of lipid peroxides formed by the reaction of iron with hydrogen peroxide. The accumulation of...
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June 17, 2023
By: Julian Orrego
My research at the Yan Lab involves investigating gap junctions in the neurons of C. elegans. Gap junctions are an electrical synapse, allowing for two adjacent cells to transmit information by permitting ions to pass through. These ions are important...
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By: Hannah Baetge
Glycogen Storage Disorder (GSD Ia) is a rare and lethal autosomal recessive genetic disorder with no current treatment. This disorder is caused by a deficiency in the G6PC1 gene, primarily expressed in the liver, kidney, and intestine. The G6PC1 gene...
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June 15, 2023
By: Vinicius Xie Fu
The Collier lab works on developing immunologically active biomaterials. A few of us research mucosal vaccines using a peptide platform called Coil29. Mucosal vaccines are gaining more attention due to their potential to tackle distinct bodily mucosae and induce immune...
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