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Ameesha Hazarika

Nov 21, 2024

Bring Your Own Sample to Dr. Raymann’s Course On Microbiomes For Spring 2025!

Although invisible to the naked eye, there reside trillions of microbes in and around us. Communities of these microbes, which include bacteria, fungi, and viruses, form what we call a…

Nov 11, 2024

Plants Still Grow During Difficult Times and We Can Too: Dr. Bullock’s Path to Becoming an Educator

By Ameesha Hazarika Within late September and early October, southeastern North America was hit with Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, respectively. During this time, people and animals all fled from…

Oct 28, 2024

What is Transcriptomics and Why is it Important? Here’s what Dr. Cartwright has to Say!

Many of us can agree that we have heard of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and their role in protein synthesis and gene expression. Whereas genomics studies an organism’s genome or the entire DNA sequence, transcriptomics studies all RNA transcripts that are being produced under a certain condition. The entire collection of mRNA sequences in a cell, or the transcriptome, allows scientists and researchers to determine when and where genes are turned on and off in an organism.

Oct 12, 2024

Reach for the Stars Ft. Marco and Polo

The second annual Reach for the Stars! Be a Star! STEM and Resource Fair for K-12 students with disabilities was held at the McKimmon Center on April 6, 2024. By…

Apr 27, 2024

Let’s Get Editing: A New Course on CRISPR Technology with Dr. Brown

Since accepting the position as a postdoctoral teaching scholar in January 2023, Dr. Brown has worked on developing his new course on CRISPR technology. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats,…

Apr 19, 2024

Integrative Symposium of NC State Training Grants

The Integrative Sciences Initiative, in collaboration with NC State’s Comparative Medicine Institute, hosted the Integrative Symposium of NC State Training Grants on February 9, 2024. The symposium featured five NIH…

Mar 28, 2024

I h-IPERT-isize That You Want to Read This!

The BIT Program at NC State is an emblem of innovation and inclusion. In fact, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded an IPERT grant to the BIT program, and…

Dec 21, 2023

What’s After Graduation? Here’s What Francesca Balestrieri is Doing!

After graduating from NC State in the spring of 2023 with a bachelor of science degree in biological sciences, Francesca Balestrieri joined our BIT program as a post-baccalaureate laboratory technician.…

Nov 22, 2023

Let’s Talk RNA: A Conversation with Dr. Hayden Huggins

What happens to an mRNA, the single-stranded RNA molecule transcribed from the DNA and coding for protein synthesis, after it gets transcribed? This one question led to an almost two-hour-long…

Oct 23, 2023

Biotechnology Through the Eyes of Dr. Raymond Haggerty!

Before we even began talking, the way Dr. Raymond Haggerty dressed and carried himself reflected a most genuine and curious scholar. I was already intrigued that he majored in quantitative…