Hometown: Causeni, Moldova
Previous Research Interests: radioastronomy, planet hunting, optical trapping, molecular motors
Current Research Interests: how eukaryotic cells detect and respond to replication stress? how do complex molecular machines with dozens of subunits function?
Passionate about: molecules, science, history, photography, cooking
Guilty pleasure: ice-cream
Favorite quote: “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!” — Monty Python
Spirit animal: The Polar Bear
Hometown: Shiga, Japan
Previous Research Interests: How does mismatch repair occur in the context of chromatin?
Current Research Interests: How does DNA damage checkpoint stabilize replication forks to maintain genome integrity?
Passionate about: Molecular biology, reading
Guilty pleasure: Sweets, Manga
Favorite quote: “Just concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.” — Momo (Michael Ende)
Spirit animal: The turtle
Hometown: Pune, India
Previous Research Interests: Single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM), stimulated emission depletion (STED), synaptic proteins involved in neurodegenerative disorders
Current Research Interests: Investigate replisome stability using advanced imaging
Passionate about: Microscopy, science writing, hiking, gardening
Guilty pleasure: Midnight food binges
Favorite quote: “One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember,in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably in this situation” – P. G. Wodehouse
Spirit animal: Dog
Graduate Program: Biochemistry
Hometown: Pinehurst, NC
Previous Research Interests: Rapid genome evolution and sub-clonal heterogeneity as a consequence of cell division errors
Current Research Interests: How DNA unwinding is regulated by checkpoint signaling
Passionate about: Microscopy, folk dance, baking, soccer
Guilty pleasure: PBR
Favorite quote: “You can observe a lot by just watching” — Yogi Berra
Spirit animal: Squirrel
Graduate Program: Biophysics
Hometown: Montvale, NJ
Previous Research Interests: The role of J-proteins in variant-specific yeast prion elimination, ribosome-associated complex structure and function, employing Kuramoto model oscillators and small-world network architecture in neuroscience
Current Research Interests: How is initiation of DNA replication regulated?
Passionate about: Single molecule imaging, history and evolution of Sinitic and Japonic languages, cooking, biking, chemical origins and early evolution of life, computer hardware
Guilty pleasure: Boba
Favorite quote: “I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to realize that.” — K. Emiya
Spirit animal: Salamander
Graduate Program: Chemical and Systems Biology
Hometown: Dearborn, MI
Previous Research Interests: Regulation of E3 ligases, developing small-molecule inhibitors of DUBs, mechanisms of drug resistance in cancer, therapeutics targeting homologous recombination in Faconi anemia and cancer
Current Research Interests: Using single molecule imaging to understand regulation of DNA replication initiation
Passionate about: Microscopy, hiking, cooking, triathlons, plants
Guilty pleasure: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Favorite quote: “Not all those who wander are lost” — Bilbo Baggins (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Spirit animal: Badger
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Previous Research Interests: Journalism
Current Research Interests: Business Economics
Passionate about: World history, fantasy/sci-fi, reading, my community
Guilty pleasure: Just one?
Favorite quote: “Truth suffers from too much analysis.” -Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Spirit animal: Pitt Bull
Hometown: Wayne, NJ
Previous Research Interests: Art history, perfect squares, number patterns, maximalism, surrealism
Current Research Interests: Masonite and other compressed wood products, acrylic paint, cells and how they move, abstract art
Passionate about: Creating art, bridging art and science
Guilty pleasure: Baking, writing postcards, and sleeping
Favorite quote: “Learn to eat rejection; it will make you stronger.” — Bob Ragland
Spirit animal: Ms. Proboscis (@msproboscis)
Website: www.sarinamitchel.com
Hometown: West Covina, CA
Previous Research Interests: brown squirrels
Current Research Interests: black squirrels
Passionate about: squirrel biodiversity, food on the ground, butt-scratches, did I mention squirrels?
Guilty pleasure: leftovers
Favorite quote: “Are you going to eat that?”
Spirit animal: The Pet Rock
