Name: Xinzhu Zhou Hometown: Chengdu, China Hobbies: Baking, hiking, crafting Lab: Palmer Lab @UCSD Lab website: https://palmerlab.org What do you do/study? I study complex diseases such as psychiatric disorders and drug abuse. I conduct studies where I analyze genotype and phenotype data collected for a mouse population and locate genes that show significant contribution to […]
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Scientist Profile: Hank Bradford
Name: Hank Bradford Hometown: Carlsbad, CA Hobbies: Volleyball, guitar, cooking, fly fishing Lab: Farah Sheikh Lab, UC San Diego What do you do/study? Our lab focuses on a genetic heart disease called Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC). We use genetically engineered mouse models to better understand the mechanisms driving ARVC, as well as evaluate novel […]
Scientist Profile: Sara Brooke
Name: Sara Brooke Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA Hobbies: Reading, playing with my dog, playing board games Current Lab: Dr. Patricia Janak’s Lab at Johns Hopkins University Formerly at Salk: Systems Neurobiology Lab, in Dr. Edward Callaway’s group Lab website: http://www.janaklab.com/ What do you study? As a graduate student, I’m studying the brains and behaviors of […]
Scientist Profile: Sammy Weiser Novak
Name: Sammy Weiser Novak Hometown: Victoria, Canada Lab: Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center Lab website: https://www.salk.edu/science/core-facilities/advanced-biophotonics/ Hobbies: Surfing, making and eating food, listening to and playing music, reading What do you study? I use light and electron microscopes to study the relationships between structure and function in living things at different spatial scales. When a researcher at Salk […]
Scientist Profile: Madeline Kavanagh
Name: Madeline Kavanagh Hometown: Sydney, Australia Lab: Cravatt Lab, The Scripps Research Institute, CA Lab website: https://www.scripps.edu/cravatt/index.html Hobbies: Hiking, skiing, running, bird watching, ballet and martial arts What do you study? I investigate how the interactions between proteins control how immune cells function, and whether we can develop new approaches of treating disease by targeting these interactions with […]