My name is Becky Hardie and I am a rising 4th year Biomedical Engineering undergraduate at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I have had the opportunity to work on a diverse range of research projects spanning microbiology and genomics, mechanobiology, biomechanics, and stem cell maintenance. As part of the NIH Human Microbiome Project I cultivated …
My name is Viraat Goel, and I’m a Bioengineering student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This summer, I’ve had the privilege to work in Dr. Khalid Shah’s Center for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging at Harvard Medical School under the mentorship of Dr. Clemens Reinshagen. The lab focuses on cell-based therapies for treating …
My name’s Srini Cherukuri, and I’m a rising junior at Brown University studying biological physics. Over the last two summers, I worked at the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Joanna Bakowska. I was responsible for detailing the domains of the protein Spartin and how they could be implicated in …
Hello! I’m Lee Rao, a rising junior studying Computer Science and Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. At UT Austin, I’m a member of Dr. Claus Wilke’s lab, where I develop algorithms for simulating and analyzing DNA sequences. This summer, I’ll be interning with Dr. Jeanne Loring at The Scripps Research Institute in …
My name is Neha Ramchandani, and I am a rising senior at Boston University majoring in Neurobiology. I have been an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Paola Divieti Pajevic’s lab since 2017, and have been working on understanding the effects of microgravity and other mechanical forces on osteocytes. Currently, I am an SRF Summer Scholar working …
My name is Carolyn Barnes, and I am working at the SRF Research Center this summer! I recently graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a B.S. in chemistry. At UTK, I worked in Dr. Michael Best’s lab. My project there involved optimizing a protocol to capture and isolate peripheral membrane binding proteins using …
Hi! I’m Joshua Sampson. I’m studying Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I work in the lab of Dr. Lonnie Shea, PhD, under the wonderful mentorship of Richard Youngblood. We are developing a 3D biopolymer scaffold for differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into pancreatic islet cells and subsequent transplantation to treat …
My name is Grace Porter, and I am a recent graduate of the University of Georgia with Bachelor of Science degrees in both Biology and Genetics. As an undergraduate, I participated in research under Dr. Shiyou Chen of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology to examine the effects of a gene known as DOCK2 on …
My name is Guanlan Dong and I’m double majoring in math and computer science at Washington University in St. Louis. At WashU, I work in a cancer biology lab where we develop computational tools and use sequencing technology to analyze tumor data. This summer, I have been working in Dr. Michael Snyder’s lab at Stanford …
I am a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major at the University of Miami. As a freshman, I joined Dr. Toborek’s lab. His research group is focusing on the molecular neuroscience of the brain. In the Toborek lab, I worked on several projects and became a co-author on papers studying the mechanistic pathways for glucose and …
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