MOTTO: CATCH THEM YOUNG AND WATCH THEM GROW
My laboratory is committed to training High School and College students through opportunities available in my laboratory and through two programs in the Vanderbilt Summer Science Academy; see
mhttps://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/vssa/basic-sciences-programs
1. The VI4 Germs, Defenses & Diseases Undergraduate Research Program; see https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/vssa/vi4-germs-defenses-diseases-under…;
2. Vascular Biology-Short Term Training Program for Minority Students supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; see https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/vssa/vascular-biology-short-term-train…;
Each of these opportunities are described below:
Undergraduate Research Training in the JOYCE LAB
High School and College students pursuing research training in my laboratory is paired with an experienced Graduate Student or Post-Doctoral Fellow to first learn a technical skill and to utilize that skill to answer very simple-to-complex questions in immunology. The duration of this opportunity has varied from a brief 2—3-month stint during the summer to 1—3-year undergraduate honors research. Projects have ranged from cloning and expressing a gene to study structure function relationship of a protein to tracking immune response to pathogens and to vaccines.
Almost all High School or Undergraduate students that came under my tutelage have gone on to careers in science with a good majority pursuing doctoral studies in immunology:
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