Researchers of Emory

McKayla Williams  is a senior double majoring in African American Studies &  Neuroscience  and  Behavioral Biology. He was awarded a Fall 2019 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on Discrimination and Cognition  under Dr. Whitney Wharton. 

Ryan  McCann  is a junior who majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology. He was awarded a Spring 2019 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on experimental mouse tissue under Dr. David Weinshenker. When reading through literature on PubMed, you rarely see a research paper that has no acknowledgments. Most projects need multiple people putting their time and energy into producing the best results possible. Thus, there are often many names included in the acknowledgements, because the main authors needed assistance. I recently ran into some difficulties with my own project and realized just how important it is to work with other members of the research community. For the past two years, I have been fortunate to be a research assistant in the  Weinshenker Laboratory ( http://genetics.emory.edu/research/weinshenker/ ). Working with Dr. Weinshenker has been an amazing experience. I have been assigned to multiple projects, and exposed to different...

Shiyu Lin  is a Senior majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology. She was awarded a Fall 2018 Conference Grant which she used to attend the Neuroscience 2018 Conference. “The figure is not properly aligned.” “The font color is not consistent.” “ Is this dotted line horizontal?” … I stared at the screen with eighty eight comments from my principal investigator (PI) on my first draft of poster, sighing. If at that point I knew what I would be looking like three days later, I would not sigh that early because the second poster draft received another twenty comments. However, when I finally hung the poster which had my name, my lab name, and my school name up on the board, I was so thankful for my PI and myself for making this poster closer and closer towards perfect.