Celebrating our undergraduates!

The Linardic lab is ecstatic to currently support three talented undergraduate scientists, all of whom provide critical assistance in our research efforts.

Sam Weitzel is a rising sophomore at Duke who joined us in September 2021. She recently received an ALSF POST award and is studying new ways to use CRISPRi in RMS.

Aretha Gao is also a rising sophomore at Duke. She joined us in January 2022 and is learning new molecular biology techniques such as DNA isolation and reading and constructing plasmid maps.

Charlotte Pollack is a rising senior at the University of South Carolina, visiting this summer from an AMGEN fellowship. Charlotte is investigating pharmacologic methods to inhibit long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs).

Our team is now “firing on all cylinders” and working hard to assist and mentor these young scientists and provide them with the most enriching research experience possible!