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My advice would be to figure out what your broad interests are, and start looking for professors whose research matches those interests.

Microbiology

Research Topic: Isolation of Daphnia-associated Microbes in Pursuit of Spirobacillus cienkowskii Graduation Year: 2025

Undergraduate Research Ambassador

Research Poster Located in the Neighborhood Engagement Centers

Research Experience

Current

    • Impact of environmental conditions on multi-species infection involving zooplankton pathogen

Previous

    • Characterization of pigment biosynthesis pathway proteins in zooplankton pathogen

    • Generation of in-host infection farms for studying zooplankton pathogen

Experience With

    • Confocal microscopy

    • Databank-based protein sequence analysis

    • In vivo cell culture

    • Quantification of cells

    • Coding in RStudio for data analysis and visualization

Campus Involvement

    • College of Natural Science Dean's Research Scholar

    • MSU Science Olympiad

    • MSU Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Club

Post-Graduation Plans

    • Graduate School