Stupka Undergraduate Research Symposium

Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb triple majored in Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics at Central Michigan University and then earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Texas A&M University in the laboratory of David Barondeau. She was an HHMI-NIH postdoctoral fellow in Catherine Drennan’s laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan…

Liam Holt completed his Ph. D. at UCSF in 2009, was a Bowes Fellow at UC Berkeley, and is currently Associate Professor of Biochemistry at New York University. His lab studies how mechanical compression affects cells, and how the physical properties of the cell interior affect biochemistry in both normal biology and disease. He is passionate about outreach and community: he co-founded Science Sketches (www.sciencesketches.org), a crowd-sourced project to create an online dictionary of science videos; and Inspire Science (www.inspiresci.org), a symposium about maintaining happiness in a challenging career.

Samuel H. Sternberg, PhD, runs a research laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University, where he is an Associate Professor and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his B.A. in Biochemistry from Columbia University in 2007, graduating summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014, where he worked with Nobel Laureate Dr. Jennifer Doudna…