鈥楢 culture creator鈥�: CSM graduate uses major shift to spur innovation
鈥淗e is the student that asks the really good questions and often challenges thinking and concepts at a deep level,鈥� says Tom Colbert, PhD.
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鈥淗e is the student that asks the really good questions and often challenges thinking and concepts at a deep level,鈥� says Tom Colbert, PhD.
鈥淪ome students have presented a number of times and are pretty well seasoned, and then there are students who are here for the first time,鈥� says Quentin Davis, PhD.
鈥淭his was a unique opportunity for the students because they are taking their research and explaining it to legislators,鈥� says Deborah Jehu, PhD.
"It's one of the first publications as a lab we've produced, and it was kind of new because it took what we were doing in the fruit fly and combined that with computational work with Dr. Malmi-Kakkada,鈥� says Paul Langridge, PhD.