Name: James Walker Hometown: Melksham, England, UK Hobbies: Baking, exploring, hiking, Netflix, singing, and card games. Lab: Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory of Joseph Ecker Lab website: https://ecker.salk.edu/  What do you study? I study how a plant cell is programmed at the level of its DNA so that different cells can do different jobs, […]

Name: Tim Strutzenberg (Here is a photo of me face-planting while trying to catch a frisbee) Hometown: Des Moines, Iowa Hobbies: Hiking, Biking, Camping, Ultimate Frisbee, Video Games Lab: Lyumkis Lab Lab website: https://lyumkis.salk.edu/ What do you study? I am interested in learning how hormones and hormone-like drugs work. I do this by looking at […]

Name: SELENA ĐORĐEVIĆ-MARQUARDT Hometown:  Pirot, Serbia Hobbies: writing, yoga, cosmetic lover (I like to test different products as much as I can), reading books (I love any genre, if the last sentence of the book resonates with me) Lab: Lyumkis lab Lab website: https://lyumkis.salk.edu/ What do you study? You know all those cool stories about […]

Name: Sienna Rocha Hometown: Escondido Lab: Towers Lab Lab website: https://towers.salk.edu/ What do you study? I am a research assistant in Dr. Towers Lab at the Salk Institute. I assist in various research projects where we are investigating the underlying mechanisms by which cancer cells resist autophagy inhibition to continue growth. To do this we […]