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Ameesha Hazarika

May 4, 2025

Putting the “Do” in “Think and Do” at Reach for the Stars

In honor of last year’s pet plants Marco and Polo (RIP), I attended the third annual Reach for the Stars! Be a Star! event held April 12, 2025, at the…

Apr 17, 2025

What Will Eat Your Carbon Source? Bioprospecting with Dr. Crook

What is one thing in common between products such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and agricultural chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers? They are often developed through a biotechnology technique known as bioprospecting.…

Mar 9, 2025

Starting the Year Out Strong with the 2025 Integrative Symposium of NC State Training Grants!

By Ameesha Hazarika & Stefanie Chen The Integrative Sciences Initiative and the Comparative Medicine Institute brought together trainees and mentors from six  NIH Training Programs on campus for the second…

Feb 28, 2025

From THINKing to DOing: Here’s What Postbac Logan Cataldo is Doing!

As a kid, Logan Cataldo had been interested in all things life sciences whether it be technology, geology, space, or anything in between. Going into Wake Tech, his plan was…

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…