Bladder Cancer Research
I look at the effects of cigarette smoking on bladder cancer and we use a
technique called immunohistochemistry exclusively right now. And this is one of
my research assistants Jessica Nix.
also I'm a biology student here at UNG trying to get my bachelor's. I'm also a
teaching assistant for Dr. Kispert and the anatomy and physiology labs and
I do help Dr. Kispert with her
immunohistochemistry and research.
So it's really important to involve students in
our research because not only do they gain skills, they learn how to
problem-solve. It's really helpful for graduate school applications and things
like that. So I've had the wonderful opportunity to have a few undergraduate
research students involved; Jessica is my primary research student. It's pretty
exciting, so she's written a grant and gotten accepted. She's doing she has
three conferences that she's presenting at this spring so she's really doing
well and she's kind of setting a really good example in the lab for all my other
research students.
I can take all this information that I've learned and have a
leg up on other students whenever I enter my program because I have so much
bench work research. And this is also another reason why I've decided to take
experience. So my best advice to students here at the University of North Georgia