I believe my understanding of research over the course of this semester progressed from an initial belief that every experiment would be straight forward with few disruptions, to a more mature realization that research projects often take time and patience in order to obtain the results desired. I believe most people being research with…

My passion for research stems primarily from pure curiosity. I am constantly amazed when I think about the millions of small molecule interactions, signaling pathways, and biological phenomena that go on within us each and every day. It is these interactions that go on every second of every day behind our level of consciousness that…

My project, directed under the guidance of Dr. Kabirul Islam, focuses on the alpha-ketogluterate-dependent hydroxlyse (AlkB) class of proteins. These proteins demethylate a variety of different mRNA, tRNA, ssDNA, and dsDNA constructs. In doing so, they play a role in the stability of proteins and DNA/RNA fidelity within the cell. More interestingly, recent research has…