Biochemistry Ph.D. Candidate at University of California, Los Angeles
Fay is originally a New Yorker who moved to Los Angeles to pursue her PhD in Biochemistry at UCLA. Her research uses math models to simulate immune... Read more about Fay Lin
Nutritional Biology Ph.D. student at University of California, Davis
Tatiana is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and a nutritional biology Ph.D. student at UC Davis, where she works under the supervision of Dr. Francene... Read more about Tatiana Diacova
Biology and Biological Engineering graduate student at Caltech
Aditi is a graduate student in biology at Caltech, studying the ecological role of viruses in the deep ocean. She is the Managing Editor of Caltech Letters, an... Read more about Aditi Narayanan
Entomology Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Riverside
As a Ph.D. candidate in entomology at the University of California Riverside, Madison has helped to develop and lead a variety of science education and... Read more about Madison Sankovitz
Entomology Ph.D. student at University of California, Riverside
Hannah is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Yamanaka lab studying insect puberty using fruit flies! More specifically, she is interested in the interactions... Read more about Hannah Chu
Someone who loves to participate in marathons may say “running is in my blood”. Or someone who adores sweets (like myself) may claim “it’s in my DNA”. Individuals have tossed around this saying to help describe their interests. But what if our lifestyles or diets are actually affecting our DNA?
DNA, an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid, is our genetic makeup. We have thousands of genes coding for proteins and cellular machinery that allow our bodies to function...
**Editor's note: This post is part of a series highlighting members of the ComSciCon community who recently attended the AAAS Annual Meeting, which took place from February 13-16, 2020 in Seattle, WA.
Ellen Brennan spent five months poking brain cells with a tiny wire, yet all she had to show for it was a bunch of weird data. “I went through my notebook,” she says, “to find anything worth talking about.” But instead of finding the typical signals of...
**Editor's note: This post is part of a series highlighting members of the ComSciCon community who recently attended the AAAS Annual Meeting, which took place from February 13-16, 2020 in Seattle, WA.**
Edna Chiang, a fourth year microbiology PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studies the gut microbes of hibernating ground squirrels, but the research’s bigger picture is way beyond the...
