spotlight

Class of 2021: Undergraduate research inspires future physician-scientist to bridge the bedside and the bench

Dec. 1, 2021—When Mason Clark was in middle school, his beloved grandmother suffered a serious heart attack. She survived, thanks to the help of the local hospital, and the experience led Clark to his life’s purpose. Partly out of gratitude and partly out of curiosity, he began volunteering at the hospital and was drawn in by the...

Graduate Student Spotlight: Jonathan Davies

Nov. 30, 2021—Jonathan is a graduate student in the Lars Plate lab. He chose the Plate lab because of the interdisciplinary proteomics and chemical biology approaches they were using to study viruses and because of the outstanding training environment Lars and group members provided. His project combines chemical biology tools with quantitative mass spectrometry methods to map...

Microbiome Research with Asia Miller

Nov. 19, 2021—Asia Miller working in Professor Seth Bordenstein’s lab. Photo by Joe Howell I tried to make onion juice my senior year of high school, and now I know why they don’t sell it commercially. I thought that by growing bacteria on different foods (orange juice, chocolate, and onions) suspected of causing halitosis, I could determine...