Name: Shoshauna Borowitz Department: Education Outreach     What do you enjoy most about being at Salk?Being on campus is amazing. I try to take walking breaks after lunch to find new spaces on campus that I haven’t seen before. In addition to the beautiful campus, everyone is so fun and kind here. Jonas Salk […]

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 […]

Name: Brittany Ellis Jewell Hometown: Houston, Texas Hobbies: Running, Surfing, Snorkeling, Ballet Folkloríco  Lab: Reuben Shaw Lab website: shaw.salk.edu  What do you study? My research focuses on the way that colon cancer takes advantage of changes in cellular metabolism to form tumors, especially how this occurs in the intestinal stem cell niche.  Why is it […]

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 […]