Dr. Mabel Tettey is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dr. Michael Grigg’s lab at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and a 2023 JCC Fellow. Dr. Tettey studies trypanosomes that cause African sleeping […]
Dr. Hannah Ledvina – a JCC Fellow in Dr. Aaron Whiteley’s lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder – has discovered a new mechanism for how bacteria fend off infecting phage. All organisms, including bacteria, […]
Dr. Prerna Malaney has the perfect name for an expert RNA biologist – although Prerna actually means inspiration in Sanskrit. Prerna traces her inspiration to be a scientist back to her father who always encouraged […]
As an embryo develops, cells differentiate into specialized body cells that compose different tissues. But not all cells can differentiate. If they all did, the organism would face a problem: no stem cells would be […]
A pounding heartbeat, quick breathing, sweaty palmswe all know these common responses to fearful situations. The signal that initiates fear in our bodies begins in a structure of the brain known as the amygdala. But […]