Name: Emily Hatch Hometown: Glens Falls, NY Hobbies: Reading, traveling, having dinner with friends What do you study? I think about how structures in our cells are put together and how they are changed over time to do different jobs. For the last 5 years I’ve been focusing on the membrane that separates your DNA from the rest of […]
Name: Aaron Sampson Hometown: Norman, Oklahoma and Rice Lake, Wisconsin Hobbies: Taekwondo, hiking What do you study? I work on developing new tools and techniques for analyzing human brain activity. Specifically, I look at recordings from the sleeping brain, and try to detect specific events, called sleep spindles, that occur during sleep. I have also worked on […]
Name: Niall Moore Hometown: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lab: Gene Expression Laboratory of Sam Pfaff Lab website: http://pfaff.salk.edu/ Hobbies: I like reading comics, cycling and one day soon surfing! What do you study? Even very simple actions like walking or throwing a ball require the complex co-ordination of many muscles. A lot of this co-ordination is controlled by the spinal […]
Name: Alyson Smith Hometown: I grew up in Torrance, California but now I live in San Diego. Hobbies: I enjoy hiking and going to the beach as well as reading a good book in a coffee shop. What do you study? I study the structure and function of the cytoskeleton in human red blood cells. The word cytoskeleton […]
Name: Ramin Skibba Hometown: Denver, Colorado. I’m also half-Iranian, and my given name came from that side. Before I came to southern California, I’ve also lived in Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania, southwest Germany, and Arizona. Hobbies: reading, traveling, skiing, hiking, playing the violin, listening to music, swing dancing What do you study? I study galaxies and dark matter. Our Milky […]
Name: Jeniffer Hernandez Hometown: All of southern California is my hometown because I have lived in LA, Orange County, San Bernardino and San Diego. Hobbies: I like to find fun activities to do with my daughter on the weekends, traveling and exploring. What do you study? I study how T cells in our bodies contribute to disease. T cells […]
Name: Zachary Katz Hometown: I’ve lived in Arizona, Florida, Virginia, New York City, and now San Diego. Hobbies: I spend time outside the lab running on trails, exploring the outdoors, collecting cool rocks, growing unique plants (especially those that eat insects), reading, writing poems, and lots of art (my favorite is pottery). What do you study? I study […]
Name: Tracy Bedrosian Hometown: Plymouth, Michigan Hobbies: horseback riding, hiking, eating breakfast for dinner, traveling, and trying new things What do you study? Jumping genes! DNA is like a code that gives instructions for each cell to do its job. Jumping genes are small pieces of DNA that can copy and paste themselves into new places in the […]
Name: April Goebl Hometown: Salt Spring Island. A small island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Hobbies: Rock climbing, hiking mountains, cooking dinner with friends, reading, learning languages, travelling by bicycle. What do you study? I study how changes in DNA (molecules that make up genes and are found in the nucleus of cells) can lead to disease. […]
Name: Avani Gadani Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, right next to Amish country. Hobbies: Telescope making, kayaking, video games, and cooking What do you study? I study how the light that comes into our eyes turns into pictures, and ultimately ideas in our brains. Neurons, the cells in your brain, react to a pictures of the natural world by […]