Researchers of Emory

Annie Schiffer is a senior double  majoring  in biology and environmental science. She received a Summer 2019 Independent Grant which she used to to study community ecology under Dr.  Berry Brosi. 

Megan Korn  is a Senior majoring in  Chemistry   She was awarded a Summer 2019 Conference Grant which she used to attend the Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and  Oligonucleotides  Gordon Research Conference. Towards the end of spring semester, I was making great strides in my research. My project revolves around designing small molecules for enhanced and synergistic methods of sequencing post-transcriptional modifications in RNA. In other words, I spend my days troubleshooting chemical synthesis, and see if my molecules react selectively with certain non-canonical bases in RNA. 

Junyi Han  is a senior double majoring in History and Media Studies. She was awarded a Summer 2019 Conference Grant which she used to attend the 10th Annual Texas A&M History Conference. On April 12, 2019, I attended the  10 th  Annual Texas A&M History Conference: “Resistance in Retrospect”  to present my research about the Great Purge. The conference is organized by the History Graduate Student Organization at Texas A&M University and it took place from April 12 to April 13. The central focus of this conference is to create a scholarly discussion on resistance in its various forms such as armed resistance against a central authority, political activism, engagement of public discourse, or popular memory.

Kasey Cervantes  is a Junior majoring in Biology. He was awarded a Summer 2019 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on Malaria under Dr. Helen Baker.  Figure 1 This summer I undertook research into mosquitoes associated with malarial transmission at the  Natural History Museum  (NHM)   in   London in collaboration  with the  Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , and the  Emory School of Nursing   (Figure 1) . Mosquitoes (Culicidae) are dipterans – True flies, which is one of the orders of insects, the scientific study of which is called  entomology .