The world of research is a perfect combination of exciting and enigmatic. There are many days where you head into the lab not knowing what the outcome of your experiments will be but that’s what makes it exciting. One of the key parts about research I have learnt from my time here is it requires…
Author: shouryamukherjee
CURF #2: My research journey and how I found my lab
My fascination with research began in high school when I used to work with Duckweed to study their genome to human genome and identify conserved sequences. I was able to continue working with Duckweed at Dr. Martin Turcotte’s lab in the Pitt biological sciences department only this time I focused on the Ecology and Evolution side as well…
CURF Introduction: Examining NOTCH1 mutations and its effects in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog post! My name is Shourya Mukherjee, and I am a senior pursuing a bachelors in Molecular Biology on the Biochemistry track with minors in Chemistry and Music. A fun fact about me is I enjoy learning about world music and exploring the realm of ethnomusicology a lot….
All Good Things Must Come to an End: A Reflection of my CUTF Journey
Over the course of the semester, I began to realize that the best way to teach students was the way professors have been trying to teach us all along instead of memorizing trends or certain formulas, we must understand how they are derived. Instead of teaching students just simply how to use an equation there’s more value…
Just as strong acids and bases can drastically change their environment, strong TAs can make an equal change!
I have known Dr. Bell since spring of freshman year when I took his general chemistry two class. During this time, I would talk to Dr. Bell quite frequently before and after classes about concepts from lecture or chemistry in our everyday lives. After the semester had ended, I reached out to Dr. Bell over…
Chemistry: The Language of Atoms – CUTF introduction : Shourya Mukherjee
Hello! My name is Shourya Mukherjee and I am a junior at Pitt pursuing a Molecular Biology with a specialization in Biochemistry for my major in addition to chemistry and music minors. A fun fact about me is I love playing different musical instruments; I primarily play the piano and trombone but have been learning…