HOME / For Everyone /
Profiles in Discovery
A ‘reprogramming’ expert: From changing the identities of brain cells to changing science education internationally
A conversation with graduate student Mohammed Mostajo-Radji
Mohammed Mostajo-Radji can give a very compelling list of reasons why he’s doing the research he’s doing right now. But perhaps the most telling part of the response is this: “Because the books tell you you can’t.”
The joys of developmental neuroscience
A conversation with graduate student Andrea Yung
Andrea Yung relishes the process of discovery—whether it’s in the lab, in the kitchen or in the reptile hall of a museum. A conversation about how she got to graduate school and the experimental methods used in her daily work is peppered with words like ‘amazing’, ‘privilege’, and ‘fun.’ Her excitement is so fresh-sounding and the memory of her first experience working in a lab as a high schooler so clear that one might mistake Yung for a first year in the PhD program she’s part of.
Understanding growth trajectories in science: personal and neuronal
A conversation with graduate student Ivan J. Santiago
Ivan Santiago is interested in journeys. In the lab he studies the complex growth trajectories of axons—the thin, tube-like output structures of neurons, which carry information from one part of the brain to another. He wants to understand how axons trek through dense neural terrain to get to their target destinations and connect with the right partner cells, and identify the molecules that choreograph this growth process.
READ MORE >