Biological Sciences

Suresh Subramani Laboratory

Research: Organelle Homeostasis

Socrates Project: Swimming through the yeast cell: Yeast as a model organism

Although a native to San Diego, Sarah attended Boston University in Massachusetts for her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Concurrent with her schoolwork in college and then post-graduation, Sarah worked in a research laboratory at Harvard Medical School. Ultimately, Sarah missed San Diego and moved back to be a manager in the lab of Suresh Subramani at UCSD.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Lena Gerwick Laboratory

Research: Innate Immune Evolution

Socrates Project: Fish Phylogenetics

Tristan is a 5th year PhD student of Dr. Lena Gerwick in Marine Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD.

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Chemistry and Biochemistry

William Trogler Laboratory

Research: Nanochemistry

Socrates Project: Solutions and Mixtures

A proud owner of two dogs and a rabbit, Kristina Mitchell is a doctoral graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSD.

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Chemistry and Biochemistry

Thomas Hermann Laboratory

Research: Synthesis of small molecules targeting RNA

Socrates Project: Drug discovery: synthesis of wintergreen from aspirin 

After graduating from Seton Hall University with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in 2006, Emily Satkiewicz moved to San Diego to continue her studies in organic chemistry at UCSD.  She is a PhD candidate in Dr. Thomas Hermann’s laboratory where her research focuses on the synthesis of small molecules targeting RNA.

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Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research: Chemical Synthesis/Oxidation and Reduction Reactions

Douglas Grotjahn Laboratory

Socrates Project: Electron Density; Solutions and Solubility 

Zephen Specht is originally from Joliet, Illinois and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from Northern Illinois University. While there he worked as a teacher's assistant for various undergraduate labs; such as the organic, inorganic, physical and general chemistry courses.

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Chemistry and Biochemistry

Joseph O’Connor Laboratory

Research: Organometallic Chemistry

Socrates Project: CSI: Chemistry Scene Investigation

Carmen L. Vélez was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, where she spent most of her undergraduate career studying manganese-oxo-pyrazolato complexes and discovered the joys of research.

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Biomedical Sciences

Alexandra Newton Laboratory

Research: Spatiotemporal dynamics of protein kinase C signaling

Socrates Project: Mutating GFP: Protein Structure and Function

Alyssa Wu-Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in her fourth year in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at UC San Diego. Alyssa was born in Beijing, China, but grew up mostly in the Seattle area. She attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and double majored in chemistry and biology.

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Bioinformatics

Kelly Frazer Laboratory

Research: Genomic Data

Socrates Project: Bioinformatics of cancer

Shawn Yost graduated with a B.S. degree in Bioinformatics from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008. He is currently working on obtaining his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from UCSD and is part of Kelly Frazer's lab.

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