July 18, 2016
By: Margo Orlen
I once watched a Ted Talk a few months ago titled “Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it” featuring Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, a man with passion who astoundingly allowed a paralyzed man to kick a soccer ball at the...
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By: Moreen Njoroge
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the chalk talks this week. From the lipid rafts in the cell to research on the Cryptococcus fungus and the Trehalose pathway, I was able to truly gain a deeper understanding of a broad variety...
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By: Raj Borra
Last week I had the pleasure of listening to the work that each of my BSURF mentors were doing. It was fascinating getting to learn more about everyone's research, and I am so impressed by the complexity of some of these...
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July 17, 2016
By: Ricardo Matias
In my opinion, one of the most interesting chalk talks last week was Emre’s discussion on the Foxj1 protein, and its role in ependymal cells. I think it’s fascinating that the entire differentiation process of a cell can depend on...
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By: Emre Kiziltug
This week, I had the opportunity to learn more about the research projects of my fellow BSURFers. Every one of them was very unique and interesting. I really enjoyed my peers’ presentations and thank them for such a great experience....
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By: Ajile Owens
Last week, though nerve-wracking at times, was certainly rewarding in that everyone finally got a quick rundown of all the research projects being conducted by our peers. Being a visual learner, I appreciated the fact that diagrams and models were...
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By: Demi Zhu
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to everyone's chalk talks last week. I had spoken briefly with some people about their projects and read about everyone's projects in the blogs, but listening to the chalk talks really clarified my understanding of the...
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By: Murotiwamambo Mudziviri
The world of science span across many seemingly different things that ultimately lead to a common goal: supporting life. After a few weeks working in an Infectious Diseases lab, it was easy to be trapped in a bubble of research...
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By: Yilin Yang
I’ve always viewed the human body as a machine - one that’s so elegantly designed that somewhat ironically, we humans can never fully replicate or even understand. This is why I found Ricardo’s chalk talk on brain-machine interface...
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By: Griffin Haas
This past week I had the pleasure of getting to learn about the research of all of my peers in the BSURF Program. In particular, I found Yilin's presentation about her research to be very fascinating. Yilin and the lab...
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By: Susan Zheng
I really enjoyed hearing everyone give their chalk talks this week and learning just how diverse all of our projects are. From plant germination to genetic mutations, gene expression to viruses, each one of us is taking part in really interesting science....
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By: Hannah Ahrendt
This week all of the fellows had an opportunity to share about our projects. It was awesome to see the diversity of research projects everyone is working on. Yillin's project especially piqued my interest. The broad idea of her research is to understand...
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By: Courtney Hill
The chalk talks I, along with my fellows, was able to hear were definitely intriguing in different ways. Some talks were really great at explaining in simple terms the nature of their project, while others were really identifiable for me...
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By: Megan Jiao
After listening to everyone's chalk talks this week, I was amazed by how our project topics were so diverse, yet like Dr. Grunwald mentioned, there was a definite thread of commonality that linked all of our respective fields together. It...
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By: Melissa Horowitz
Though I’ve heard bits and pieces about a variety of people’s research projects throughout the past five weeks, I haven’t heard them described in as much detail as they were during the chalk talks. Therefore, I found it really interesting...
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By: Elizabeth Snyder-Mounts
This week I had the pleasure of hearing about the projects of my fellow researchers in the form of Chalk Talks. Everything was very interesting and it was exciting to hear about different types of research going on around campus....
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July 16, 2016
By: Casey Kuka
First off, everyone's projects sound so interesting! I'm such a nerd but it was so cool to finally get a glimpse of what everyone else is working on this summer. From heart tissue regeneration to brain technology that can help paraplegics...
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July 11, 2016
By: Chad Munger
Lab starts everyday at 7:00. On Mondays, a general lab meeting lasts until 9:00 in a room shared by the labs on the same floor. During these meetings, each person describes what they have done in the past week and...
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