Researchers of Emory

Sally Zhang  is a junior who is majoring in Biology. She was awarded a Fall 2018 Independent Grant which she used to conduct research on ubiquination and Alzheimer's disease  under Dr. Hyojung Choo.  I started doing my project at the Seyfried Lab of the Biochemistry department and Center for Neurodegenerative diseases of Emory School of Medicine in April 2018. My project aims to examine the mechanisms underlying the turnover of insoluble neurofibrillary tangles of Tau, a key type of pathological protein aggregate in Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by the presence of protein aggregates and a loss of protein homeostasis. Ubiquitin (Ub) is a 76 amino acid peptide that marks proteins for degradation mainly through the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and autophagy. Modification by Lys-48-linked poly-Ub chains has been reported as means of selecting proteins for degradation by the UPS. Whereas, Lys-63-linked poly-ubiquitination is associ...

Brandon Chen is a senior majoring in Biology. He was awarded a Fall 201 Conference Grant which he used to attend the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. .

Philip Chu  is a senior who majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology. He was awarded a Fall 2018 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on Renal Cell Cancer under Dr. John Petros.  Medicine heals people, but research is what advances medicine. The reason I’ve done  research throughout my undergraduate experience is because I want to constantly contribute to  the advancement of medicine. What motivates me in lab is the thought that every experiment is   potentially a step closer in benefiting innumerable lives. I view medicine as the present, and   research as the future.

Zoe is an Emory senior from Fairfield Connecticut who studies Quantitative Sciences and Arabic. She was the Emory Global Health Institute Field Scholar in 2018 and traveled to Jordan to conduct research on sexual harassment in partnership with the Information and Research Center of the King Hussein Foundation. She worked on a study that seeks to assess the prevalence and develop a primary prevention intervention against sexual harassment at the University of Jordan. A professor from the Rollins School of Public Health is leading this study in partnership with the research team at the King Hussein Foundation. She is continuing her research on sexual harassment in at the University of Jordan through her senior honors thesis. Her argument is that gender-roles in Jordan carryover from tribal institutions into institutions of higher education. She is establishing this link through Sex-role Spillover theory. Zoe’s thesis will also include an epistemological discussion about Orientalism ...

Kaveri Sheth  is a senior who is double majoring in Psychology and Linguistics. She was awarded a Fall 2018 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on source memory recall in bilingual students under Dr. Patricia Bauer.  I have been working in the Bauer lab for the past three years. In the lab, I have become accustomed to throwing out words, such as self-derivation (the process of combining two separate but related facts), stem facts (the separate yet related facts), and integration facts (a fact that can be self-derived). These words have become the norm for me, just like the paradigm I have been using to test integration of information for my honors thesis. I have used this paradigm in a variety of projects throughout my three years in the lab, so it seems like second nature to me. However, I realized that I became very frustrated when my participants were not fully understanding what I was asking them during the test phase. 

Michael is an Emory senior from Bethesda, Maryland who is majoring in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) and Arabic. He is currently doing a senior thesis project titled “Framing Azawad in the Age of Facebook: The MNLA, Social Media, Narrative, and Identity”. The goal of his project is to explore the ways in which officials and supporters of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (known as the MNLA, its acronym in French), a secessionist rebel group at the heart of the civil war in the West African country of Mali between 2012 to 2015, used Facebook, and what their Facebook postings tell us about the way the movement framed its own identity and goals. To do this project, Michael identified a number of public Facebook accounts belonging to officials involved with the MNLA’s communications, such as spokesmen, and other accounts belonging to supporters of the MNLA. He quantitatively categorized their Facebook postings between 2012 and 2015, approximately 6500 ...

Kino  Maravillas is a senior who is majoring in Biology. He was awarded a Fall 2018 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on the Milpa soil microbiome under  Dr. Nicole Gerardo .  The philosophy of scientific research is something I’ve always embodied but could never fully express until I entered Emory. Curiosity, gaining an understanding of the complex, interdependent systems that drive our world, has always driven me to read that extra chapter, linger on that leaf blade in the distance for just a few more minutes, and ponder on that lofty thought that you know will eventually lead somewhere solid. This curiosity was always in the back of my mind; coming into Emory, I applied to the  Scholarly Inquiry and Research (SIRE) program knowing I would finally get to apply this with a lab coat donned. Through my freshman and junior years I’ve been exposed to the grit of day-to-day research, from painstakingly formatting data figures to public...