Hometown: Buffalo Grove, IL Year entered CMB program: 2020 Lab: Anna Huttenlocher Lab Brief Summary of Research: Effects of bacterial infection on immune cell migration during immunodeficiency and wound healing Awards and Publications: “MicroRNA-mediated …
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Student Spotlight: Cassie Leech
Hometown: Middleboro, MA Year entered CMB program: 2019 Lab: John Denu Lab Brief Summary of Research: I am currently investigating the role that SAM-synthatases (MAT2A and MAT2B) play in promoting adaptive and de novo …
Student Spotlight: Kourtney Kostecki
Hometown: Cottleville, MO (suburb of St. Louis) Year entered CMB program: 2019 Lab: Deric Wheeler Lab Brief Summary of Research: Understanding the effect of the TAM family of receptor tyrosine kinase on the immune …
Student Spotlight: Morgan Giese
Hometown: Boise, ID Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: Anna Huttenlocher Lab Brief Summary of Research: Neutrophils are innate immune cells that can polarize to tumor-promoting or tumor-inhibiting phenotypes. My research focuses on identifying …
Student Spotlight: Zach Morrow
Hometown: Beaver Falls, PA Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: JD Sauer Lab Brief Summary of Research: I work to understand immune signaling pathways that are responsible for generating robust responses to tumors. Awards …
Student Spotlight: Jose Martinez
Hometown: Watsonville, CA Year entered CMB program: 2018 Lab: Anita Bhattacharyya Lab Brief Summary of Research: We work with human pluripotent stem cells (trisomy 21 iPSCs) to study different aspects of cortical development in …
Student Spotlight: Ellen Wagner
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: Audrey Gasch Lab Brief Summary of Research: I am studying how the enzyme Protein Kinase A is regulated and targeted to its substrates, and how …
Student Spotlight: Katie Mueller
Hometown: Broomfield, Colorado Year entered CMB program: 2016 Lab: Krishanu Saha Lab Brief Summary of Research: Precision editing techniques to improve the potency of engineered cell therapies Awards and Publications: NSF Graduate research fellowship, …
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Student Spotlight: Zac Swider
Hometown: Santa Barbara, California Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: William Bement Lab Brief Summary of Research: I am studying the cell cycle regulation of cortical excitability. Briefly put, during and following cytokinesis, the cell …