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 …
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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 …
Student Spotlight: Patrick Cervantes
Hometown: Rochester, Minnesota Year entered CMB program: 2015 Lab: Laura Knoll Lab Brief Summary of Research: I study host-pathogen interactions of the parasite, Toxoplasma gondii. My research uses mice to model oral infection and …
Student Spotlight: Lauren Hillers
Hometown: Crystal Lake, Illinois Year entered CMB program: 2015 Lab: Lisa Arendt Lab Brief Summary of Research: My lab studies obesity associated breast cancers. I am specifically investigating how obesity alters the breast microenvironment …
Student Spotlight: Katarina Braun
Hometown: South Wales, New York Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: Thomas Friedrich Brief Summary of Research: I study the evolution of influenza viruses by applying the principles of population genetics to deep sequencing …