June 27, 2016
By: Chad Munger
Dr. Bohórquez is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant research Professor in Neurobiology at Duke University. He refers to himself as a “gut-brain neuroscientist” because he studies the way that the GI tract connects with the brain. Becoming a...
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June 26, 2016
By: Murotiwamambo Mudziviri
After a week of hard work and processing a lot of information, everything started to take form after a motivating interview with Dr Perfect. Dr Perfect is one of the best Infectious Diseases specialists. He joined Duke University’s Infectious Diseases...
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By: Moreen Njoroge
I have had the pleasure of working with and interviewing [Future] Dr. Amber Eubanks who is currently a third year PhD candidate at the Derbyshire Lab in the Department of Chemistry. As a graduate student, Amber spends countless hours in...
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By: Margo Orlen
One of the greatest perks of working in a biomedical research lab at Duke University is the exposure you have to some of the most accomplished and brightest minds in science. So you can imagine how I felt, a mere...
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By: Ajile Owens
Dr. Barton F. Haynes began his life of science at the University of Tennessee in 1969, though not sure initially of the path that life would take him, it was one of his first mentors Joseph Tipton and his zoology...
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By: Courtney Hill
I was lucky enough not only to be assigned Dr. Justin Wright as my PI, the Primary Investigator of the lab I'm working in, but to also be given the opportunity to know more of his story through an interview. One...
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By: Raj Borra
Unlike most of the PIs my fellow BSURFers have, Dr. Viventi has always been an engineer at heart. He studied Electrical Engineering as an undergraduate at Princeton, where he did activities such as robotics and worked with automated vehicles to...
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By: Hannah Ahrendt
According to Dr. Anne West: “There are three things to know about me: - My compliment sandwich -My perfectly teased hair -My laugh” Dr. West began her path to neurobiology research at Cornell University, where she started in the same...
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By: Emre Kiziltug
This week, I had the opportunity to interview my Principal Investigator, Dr. Chay Kuo. He went through a very unique path which eventually led him to become a successful medical scientist in the Department of Cell Biology at Duke University....
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By: Griffin Haas
"I always have been intrigued by how things work." Dr. Pickup replied as I asked him why he enjoyed being a researcher. He continued to explain that science is an avenue through which to understand how things work; particularly in...
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By: Susan Zheng
Ever since he was a kid, Principle Investigator, Dr. Ken Poss, has always had a love for biology and animals. Dr. Poss began his scientific career at Carleton College, a small school in Minnesota, where he studied biology. The first...
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By: Elizabeth Snyder-Mounts
This week I had the pleasure of meeting with and interviewing the Primary Investigator (PI) of the lab I am working in this summer, Dr. George Truskey. [caption id="attachment_1662" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Dr. George A. Truskey[/caption] Dr. Truskey is a professor...
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By: Melissa Horowitz
(My primary mentor, Dr. Kathleen Donohue, has been away from the lab for the past week and a half, so I interviewed my secondary mentor, Dr. Gabriela Auge, instead.) Whenever I travel to Duke, the four hours of flights make...
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By: Megan Jiao
Dr. Ryan Baugh grew up in Georgia and went to the University of Georgia, majoring in genetics. He entered college on the pre-med track, but he discovered that he was more interested in research than medicine. After graduating, he took...
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By: Yilin Yang
I saw only four people during my 20-minute walk to lab on Saturday morning, but Dr. Yong-hui Jiang was already waiting for me in his office when I got there. 9 a.m., in his office, this is how...
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June 22, 2016
By: Casey Kuka
It's 4:00 a.m. The sun is snuggled sleepily behind the horizon, and even the birds are still snoozing. Dr. Soman Abraham, PhD, however, is already awake -- and in fact, may have been awake for a full hour already, toiling away...
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June 19, 2016
By: Moreen Njoroge
Well I was wrong. I have been ill with malaria countless times while living in Kenya and I never blamed anything but the obvious culprit, the mosquito. My expectation when I entered the Derbyshire lab was that I would be...
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By: Chad Munger
I have always been a fan of science. I read The Big Book of Knowledge as a child. I subscribed to Scientific American. But what I never have been is a scientist. The mindset of a fan of science...
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