Ameesha Hazarika

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 training programs…

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 five…

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. As…

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…