My name is Logan DeHoff, I'm a junior here at the University of Kentucky and I'm studying
biology, premed student.
Well the overall scope of the Pearson Lab is to determine the effects on offspring due
to certain conditions of you know, the female during pregnancy.
And so, one of the only usable tissues from human offspring is human foreskin you know,
it's just discarded anyways.
And so my little piece of the puzzle in the Pearson Lab is dealing with glucose uptake
and skin tissue and comparing it to uptake and other body tissues to see how well they
correlate so that way hopefully I can point to the scan and show that it is a, a reasonable
marker for whole body functions.
Well I'm from Ashland, Kentucky it's a pretty rural community, but just from the time I
was little you know, I always had an interest in math, science and they're my favorite subjects
and I think a part of that comes from you know, I come from a family of engineers.
My father's an engineer, both of my older brothers are engineers.
I got some uncles that are engineers so I guess I kind of got that math, science you
know, gene in me and like I said the time I was little I always had an interest in it
and so you know, just stuck with it and by the time I got to college, decided to pursue
you know, biology as my major.
Well I just think that you know, college is the perfect time to you know, explore all
your options and explore different career paths and you know, I just kinda wanted to
you know, get the other side of learning you know.
A lot of times in college you have that traditional method you know, your nose in a text book
or you know you're sitting in a lecture and stuff.
I think research offers you know, that other side where you actually get to be hands on
and learn by doing, and kind of practice what you're learning in the place and you get to
put it to use.
So I just thought that was an awesome opportunity and wanted to get involved in that.
Yeah a lot of times in science it, it's not you know black and white, a lot of times the
results you get are a little bit grey and stuff, and so you know that's the whole procedure
with science is that you know, tweaking what you're doing to try to get a little bit better
results you know, and continually making modifications until you, you get the results that you desire.
As a young scientist you, you're not gonna know everything there is to know and so a
large part of being a young scientist is you know, seeking others for help you know, for
guidance and stuff to help you kinda make your way and learn the process.
So you know, within the lab or even you know elsewhere that might be working on a project
similar to you.
So there's a lot of collaboration that goes on and then hopefully in, if your research
goes well and stuff then it can be published in the papers, so that way you can share with
the rest of the world.