Hi, my name's Sally Moody, I'm a professor at the George Washington University School
of Medicine and Health Sciences. I'm a professor in the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative
Biology. My lab is very interested in discovering novel genes that are expressed in the embryo
during the development of the nervous system. This is important research for discovering
the causes of birth defects and other neuron-degenerative disease mechanisms. Welcome to my lab. \
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a senior at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University.
Currently I work on her projects entitled Maternal Determinants of Neural Fate in Xenopus
laeviss I do some molecular work to prepare our naise that I then inject into embryos,
in order to test neural tissue induction. When I was younger, I hated research, I hated
the idea of going into research, and I was really not excited about being in a lab all
day, everyday. But then I got this position and I was really excited for it cuz I've always
been real interested in genetics and developmental biology. I ended up loving it here. I love
knowing that the research that I'm conducting can have greater impacts on medical research
in the future, and it's really exciting to see your work and your results in the end,
and see how they affect scientific outcomes. I love what I do here and I would encourage
anybody else to do it too.\ \
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Columbian College, I'm studying biology and economics. I stared being pre-med only two
year ago, I was originally Poly Sci, and I basically made the switch because I wanted
to be involved in a lot of hands on activity. Originally I was skeptical, and I know a lot
of people are coming out of high school because the amount of work involved in it, but the
satisfaction that you derive from a lot of things that you do, both in class, the information
you learn, and in the laboratory, I think that balances out the work that you have to
put in. It's a lot more fun, honestly, than a lot of people expect. It's not reading materials,
boring type of stuff. It's things where you get to mix chemicals, inject compounds into
cells and see how those cells future. Students, instead of just sitting there learning material,
they get to actually see how it makes a difference. I think it's a lot more fun than people who
make lab work out to sound. And so, I would give it a shot, look around different labs,
you know, that's what
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