{"id":139,"date":"2021-10-20T03:16:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/scipos\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2022-01-14T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T20:51:16","slug":"summer-plans-how-can-you-not-want-to-be-a-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/scipos\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/20\/summer-plans-how-can-you-not-want-to-be-a-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Plans: How can you not want to be a scientist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

 The grads of UW Biology will be spending the next few months diving into their research and soaking up some of that delicious and outrageous Seattle sunshine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brandon Peecook:<\/strong> “I’ll be land-cruisin’ around Africa collecting 1\/4 billion year old fossils, discerning patterns of extinction and recovery, and trying to not be eaten by several known man-eaters.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Dr.) Kelsey Byers:<\/strong> “I’ll be traipsing around the Alps collecting floral scent and tissue from alpine orchids!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Cerchiara:<\/strong> “I’ll be spending my summer studying the physiology of aging in Magellanic penguins.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Cooper:<\/strong> “I’ll be modeling how sex with neighbors is different from sex with randos.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasmeen Hussain:<\/strong> “I’ll be watching sperm swim and making (urchin) babies.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Dorrity:<\/strong> “I’ll be pitting millions of yeast against each other in fiercely competitive agar-digging tournaments.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Crofts: <\/strong>“I’ll be playing with fish and finding new ways to crush shells.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David DeMar Jr.:<\/strong> “I’ll be the field crew chief in northeastern Montana for the Hell Creek III project with hopes of finding a Tyrannosaurus rex<\/em> skeleton for the UW Burke Museum.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Eng:<\/strong> “I’ll be collecting time lapse images of developing fruit fly larvae to understand what contributes to maintained distinction between axons and dendrites (transmitters and receivers of information).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Derek Smith:<\/strong> “I’ll be following up on 2300-year-old benthic settlement experiments started by ancient Greek and Roman sailors when their ships and artifacts went down throughout the Mediterranean Sea.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Swore:<\/strong> “I’ll be looking at and comparing babies… baby invertebrates found in the Puget Sound while they develop.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leander Love-Anderegg: <\/strong>“I’ll be exploring how Rocky Mountain forests deal with drought by shooting trees with a shotgun.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Smith: <\/strong>“I am going to dig up some tiny fossil teeth and help Dave find that T. rex<\/em> that he wants so much. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casey Self:<\/strong> “Defending, then starting a project measuring cranial suture patency in adult humans”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Day:<\/strong> “I’ll be watching digital critters make babies.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Calede: <\/strong>“I’ll be spending part of my summer digging up western Montana for fossil mammals and another part of it looking at gopher skulls. Lots of burrowing and burrowers!”
Emily Grason:<\/strong> “I’ll be trying to guess what snails are thinking, and cleaning up lots of crab poop – and maybe doing some hiking.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myles Fenske:<\/strong> “I’m spending my summer making petunias glow in the dark–to a rhythm!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Bain:<\/strong> “I’ll be checking out expression of pigment cell genes in zebrafish and drinking lots of beer on a boat on Lake Washington.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweta Agrawal:<\/strong> “Seducing flies with magnets wasn’t enough — this summer, I’ll be adding lasers to my system, so I can start to CONTROL FLY MINDS.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew George:<\/strong> “I’ll be yanking critters off of rocks.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shawn Luttrell:<\/strong> “I’ll be here on campus doing a ton of in situ hybridization and staining of neural tissue in regenerating hemichordates.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina van Raay: <\/strong>“I’ll be watching one of the world’s smallest animals eat tiny multicellular algae from the inside out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Beightol:<\/strong> “I’ll be in Zambia hunting prehistoric big game therapsids, and then finish off the summer at Petrified Forest National Park, AZ searching for lost croc relatives!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Breckheimer: <\/strong>\u201cI\u2019ll be torturing alpine plants on Mt. Rainier, where only the strong survive!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Newcomb:<\/strong> “I’ll be pulling mussels off of aquaculture lines on board a mussel harvesting boat to help me understand how elevated temperature and ocean acidification may weaken mussel attachment strength.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Debey:<\/strong> “I’ll be taking undergraduate students and K-12 teachers to Montana to dig for dinosaurs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Vandepas:<\/strong> “I’ll be subjecting the ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei<\/em> to immune challenges to characterize the innate immune system of a basal animal group and enjoying the gorgeousness that is summer at Friday Harbor Labs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jiae Lee:<\/strong> “I’ll be zapping the fly neuron with a laser to find out what happens inside them with overcoming the pain and struggling to grow back.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Steele-Ogus:<\/strong> “I’m going to be indoctrinating undergrads in assisting me in my nefarious schemes to take over the world! Er, I mean, I’m going to quietly work on my research and not plot any sort of mad science.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Lowe:<\/strong> “I’ll be recording eelgrass and oysters (De-?)acidifying the ocean.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rochelle Kelly:<\/strong> “I’ll be studying bat ecology on the San Juan Islands this summer.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audrey Ragsac:<\/strong> “I’ll be taking a course on tropical botany in Miami.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leith Miller:<\/strong> “I’ll be microCT scanning bat nose leaves and ears, as well as getting elbow deep in mammal masticatory muscles.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aric Rininger:<\/strong> “I’m going to spend this summer watching weeds grow and taping leaves to microscope slides.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edith Pierre-Jerome:<\/strong> “This summer I will be be gene cloning, gene cloning, and maybe do some more gene cloning.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Itzue Caviedes Solis:<\/strong> “I will spend my summer under the stars walking along the rivers looking for frogs in Mexican forest!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew McElroy:<\/strong> “This summer I’ll be sequencing DNA from Puerto Rican lizards in order to study physiology and population differentiation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CJ Battey:<\/strong> “I’m in Mexico surveying the avian biodiversity of the mountains of southeastern Nuevo Le\u00f3n.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frazer Meacham<\/strong>: “I’ll be speculating on some problems in fields only vaguely related to biology, while using some math.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Hardin<\/strong>: “I’ll be taking movies of reproducing Giardia<\/em>, while listening to Pandora.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliza Heery<\/strong>: “I’ll be sorting through worms, clams, snails and more in sediment samples from an experiment I’m running off of Alki Beach.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jared Grummer<\/strong>: “I’ll be collecting and analyzing genomic data of western North American lizards and frogs, while preparing for and subsequently presenting at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Tennessee!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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