As summer comes to an end along with the Brackenridge Fellowship and I begin to reflect on all my experiences, it became apparent that my thinking matured relating to my research. More precisely, how I think about my project and connect the dots between different experiments. This skill is essential for understanding role the that…

As summer quickly progresses, it is easy for me to underestimate the progress I have made on my project. As a quick recap, I am studying a protein that was shown to be important for DNA breakage in mice; however, in Caenorhabditis elegans, it looks like it may be a part of DNA repair, which is exciting….

It is truly mind-blowing how fast these four weeks have gone since the beginning of the Brackenridge Fellowship. Since starting, I have had the opportunity to meet with fellows pursuing a similar path and conducting research in a similar vein. On the flip side, I also had the chance to meet researchers in entirely different…