Name: Chris Balak Hometown:  Phoenix, Arizona Hobbies: Surfing, fishing, snowboarding Lab: Dr. Christopher K. Glass, UCSD Lab website:  Glass Laboratory What do you study? I study gene regulation in cells, or how the different cells in our body use different sets of genes to perform and accomplish their specific functions. More specifically, I study gene […]

Name: Jasmine Temple Hometown: Forestville, California Hobbies: Cooking, painting and bio-art, reading Lab: Mana Parast, placenta development and pathology Lab website: Mana Parast Lab What do you study? I study early placenta development and the stem cells that make up the placenta. After fertilization, the mass of cells turns into embryonic stem cells and placenta […]

Name: Charlotte Miller, PhD Hometown: Norwich, UK Hobbies: writing music and playing guitar and piano, cinema, reading, painting and watching live bands. Lab: Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory of Dr. Wolfgang Busch Lab website: https://busch.salk.edu What do you study? I have a few projects that I am working on in the lab. I am […]

Name: Cali Horta Hometown: Santa Clara, California Hobbies: Running, hiking, traveling, reading Lab: Dr. Jing Yang Lab website: Yang Lab  What do you study? I study breast cancer metastasis, which is the process where cancer cells in the breast travel to other parts of the body, such as the lung, bone and brain. The area […]

Name: Alex Tankka Hometown: Lafayette, CA Hobbies: Learning how to surf (I’m not very good yet!), baking, hiking, finding delicious food in San Diego! Lab: Gene Yeo, UCSD Lab website: https://yeolab.github.io/gene-yeo/ What do you study? Breast cancer, specifically RNA-binding protein (RBP) function in cancers with unique combinations of oncogene mutations. RBPs can regulate the post-transcriptional […]

Name: Stephany Flores Ramos Hometown: Kahului, Maui, HI Hobbies: paint, draw, cosplay, dance Lab: Amir Zarrinpar Lab website: https://zarrinparlab.org What do you study? I study the small molecules that microbes make in our body. More specifically, I am searching for molecules that have been made or decorated by microbes in our gut in response to […]