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Aug. 17, 2023

Kranawetter receives USDA fellowship to explore plant border cells

Clayton Kranawetter, a postdoctoral fellow in the Lloyd Sumner lab at Bond LSC, recently received a USDA National Institutes of Food and Agriculture Postdoctoral Research fellowship in which he uses this mass spectrometry machine to study the significance of plant border cells. | photo by Sarah Kiefer, Bond LSC By Sarah Kiefer | Bond LSC…

Aug. 9, 2023

#IAmScience Alexandra Diller

By Sarah Kiefer Alexandra Diller jumped off a cliff, in a sense. Instead of taking on more clear and straightforward science, she dove into vessel regeneration and never looked back as she works on the burning question, ‘can muscles regenerate in the absence of blood vessels and vice versa?’ “Knowing how vessels grow back can…

July 21, 2023

#IAmScience Elaina Sculley

By Sarah Kiefer | Bond LSC For Elaina Sculley, the word filter means much more than narrowing down your search results on a website. The second-year animal sciences graduate student spends her days using computer programming tools as part of her bioinformatics studies and her work in Wes Warren’s lab at Bond LSC. Her focus…

July 20, 2023

Modifying factor: Researchers identify modifier of key protein in rare neurological diseases

Bond Life Sciences principal investigator and associate research professor of veterinary pathology, Monique Lorson (left) and postdoctoral fellow Gangadhar Vadla (right) worked together to identify the ABT1 modifier in the diseases, spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress (SMARD1) and Charcot Marie Tooth 2S (CMT). | Photos by Sarah Kiefer, Bond LSC By Sarah Kiefer |…

July 10, 2023

#IAmScience Lahcen Amor

By Sarah Kiefer The ocean is a current throughout Lahcen Amor’s childhood memories. Growing up one block away from the Atlantic Ocean in Rabat-Salé- Morocco, Amor and his friends ventured into the water in search of a good time and some extra spending money. They would dive down to catch fish, seaweed and mussels, which…

June 30, 2023

#IAmScience Lorenzo Ceccon

By Sarah Kiefer Lorenzo Ceccon wanted a career full of methodical problems for him to try and solve. “I like science because it is a very logical thing. A + B = C,” he said. “It’s very systematic, so I guess I just like finding the answers to the questions I wonder about.” The senior…

June 23, 2023

Cherng Scholar Rachel Weber

By Sarah Kiefer A strong, stable stem is like Rachel Weber’s career in plant biology. Weber started in a research lab only a few months after she stepped onto the University of Missouri campus for the first time. “I was really excited and surprised because I didn’t expect as a freshman to have this opportunity,”…

June 16, 2023

Cherng Scholar Lara Stefani

By Sarah Kiefer It was a dark and stormy night … While this line sets an eerie scene in many mystery novels, the setting isn’t often a lab bench. For Lara Stefani, suspense bleeds over between her hobbies and work. Stefani writes and reads science fiction to activate her artistic side, but as an undergraduate…

June 2, 2023

#IAmScience Emily Giri

By Sarah Kiefer On the weekends, the “tornado machine” was the highlight, one of Emily Giri’s favorite parts about her dad being a meteorologist. “I was a very weird child,” Giri said. “In kindergarten, someone gifted me an encyclopedia about horses, and that was the best thing I had at the time.” Between a tornado…

May 26, 2023

#IAmScience Saad Raza

By Sarah Kiefer It all started with the glow of a blacklight. In a simple experiment in high school biology, DNA from a jellyfish was put into the bacteria E. coli demonstrating the basics of genetic engineering. Saad Raza was hooked. Science became something that would fascinate and inspire him simultaneously. “I just thought that…