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Students
Athena Zheng
Major: Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 2021
Top Three Lock-Down Activities: Bowling, drawing, and hiking
Favorite Part of BioClock Workshop: I love making the video, and creating a project that will be used for educational purpose.
Danielle Gelsinger
MS Thesis Project: Profiling the protease activities in urine from healthy patients and urine from patients with bladder cancer to test if there is a biomarker that can be used as a point of diagnostic in the clinic.
Top Three Lock-Down Activities: Yoga, sewing, and watching sunsets at the park!
Favorite Part of BioClock Workshop: Getting to know my group and learning how to make animations!
Isaac Tang
MS Thesis Project: Role of MBOAT7 in developmental intellectual disability and epilepsy.
Top Three Lock-Down Activities: Sleeping, studying, and working.
Favorite Part of BioClock Workshop: Having the freedom of activity and time.
Jamillah Murtadha
MS Thesis Project: Testing the effectiveness of Cirmtuzumab (a monoclonal antibody drug) on patient-dervied organoid models.
Top Three Lock-Down Activities: Reading, writing food reviews, and learning to crochet.
Favorite Part of BioClock Workshop: My favorite part of BioClock Studio was seeing the end product of a research paper turned into a tutorial.
Joseph Siprut
MS Thesis Project: Evaluation of a MYOTON muscular probe as a means for spaceflight observation of muscular biofactors.
Top Three Lock-Down Activities: Reading, surfing, and watching anime.
Favorite Part of BioClock Workshop: I really enjoyed the in-depth discussion of scientific literature.
Koushik Tuppil
MS Thesis Project: Investigating the expression of neurotransmitters in brain regions that control sleep and circadian rhythms.
Top Three Lock-Down Activities: Tennis, cooking, and video games.
Favorite Part of BioClock Workshop: Learning how to make animations for scientific presentations.
Lex Koretoff
MS Thesis Project: Investigating whether early time-restricted feeding can entrain a liver to an 18-hour day.
Top Three Lock-Down Activities: Aerial silks, painting, and binge-watching RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Favorite Part of BioClock Workshop: The opportunity to learn how to communicate complex information into a more digestible form for an audience.
Purva Parwal
MS Thesis Project: Liver Cancer
Top Three Lock-Down Activities: Learning how to code, cooking, and reading books!
Favorite Part of BioClock Workshop: I really enjoyed interacting with others as we shared different ideas and thoughts on all parts of the scripts while still learning more about science!
Zachary Holmes
MS Thesis Project: I research the role of low molecular weight phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase, a class II phosphatase, in signal transduction pathways leading to diseases, as well as work on a drug discovery project for LMPTP.
Top Three Lock-Down Activities: Learning new skills, cooking, and playing video games.
Favorite Part of BioClock Workshop: Diving in-depth into a paper to understand how the research was performed.