Name: Lauren Clubb Hometown: McLean, VA Hobbies: Hiking, swimming, paddle boarding, food! Lab: Drs. Silvio Gutkind & Jill Mesirov Lab website: https://gutkindlab.org/team/ & https://mesirovlab.org/ What do you study? I want to understand how our healthy cells respond to cancer and how tumors can trick our bodies to support their own survival and growth. I am […]

Name: Mika Caplan Hometown: Omaha, Nebraska Hobbies: Hiking, snorkeling, rock climbing, painting Lab: Trejo Lab, Dept. of Pharmacology, UCSD Lab website: http://trejolab.ucsd.edu/  What do you study? I study cell signaling in breast cancer. All mammalian cells transmit messages from outside the cell to the inside. When the message in the signal becomes dysregulated, this can […]

Name: Karthik Guruvayurappan Hometown: Cupertino, CA Hobbies: Tennis, Eating, Running, Guitar Lab: McVicker Lab, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Lab website: http://mcvicker.salk.edu/  What do you study? I’m currently studying interactions between enhancer elements across the genome. Enhancers are regions of the DNA that impact the expression level of a certain gene, which in turn can impact […]

Name: Queralt Vallmajó Martín Hometown: Girona, Catalunya, Spain Hobbies: Traveling, meeting new people, good food & the beach Lab: Wahl lab, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Lab website: https://wahl.salk.edu/ What do you study? I study the onset and progression of pancreatic cancer. For this, we have developed a bioengineering approach to culture cells in the […]

Name: Mike Cuoco Hometown: Concord, Massachusetts Hobbies: Skiing, Gardening, Camping, Tennis Lab: Rusty Gage Lab website: https://gage.labsites.salk.edu/ What do you study?    I study transposon activity in the mammalian brain. Transposons (a.k.a. jumping genes) are pieces of our DNA that can move across our genome, by copying themselves from one location and pasting themselves into […]