Throughout our research careers, we don’t often get the chance to interact with researchers in other disciplines, which could lead to students not gaining a variety in perspective and understanding of different methods. Interdisciplinary research is important for a variety of reasons, one of them being the skillful combining of knowledge from different disciplines can…

Throughout college, one of the most prominent issues brought forth in my research experience is that oftentimes when sharing research with people who work in different fields, communication difficulties arise from a lack of familiarity with other’s disciplinary language, thereby straining people’s ability to effectively work together. An interdisciplinary environment provides interactions with an audience…

As a student studying bioinformatics, almost all of the research that I have done has work that only pertains to the natural sciences and public health. My first research experience was in a lab that worked with a bacteria that causes Cholera disease, to identify the genes that allow V. Cholerae to resist antibiotics. Then,…