In this episode of BGAB, Andie and Hussain chat with a group of young professionals who spent 10 weeks with different research groups at TAMU as part of the NSF SURGe program. All of the SURGe students are undergraduates interested in a future career related to biosciences. We pick their brains about their experiences with the program, their feelings about College Station and TAMU, and how they see the future of bioscience careers.

In this episode, Andrew interviews four guests: Garbrielle Poole, Alison Wuerful, Zach Adelman, and Clint Magill. Each of these scientists is at a different stage of their career: Gabrielle is undergraduate REU student, Alison is a graduate student pursuing a PhD, Zach is Principal Investigator and Program Chair in the midst of his career, and Clint is nearing retirement more than 50 years after earning his PhD. These four illustrate some of the differences in perspective across generations and career stages as we discuss what life is like for a career in biology and in research.

If you want to know more about the Genetics program at Texas A&M or the research discussed in this episode, please visit the following websites:

Genetics IDP: https://genetics.tamu.edu

Genetics Graduate Student Association: https://g2sa.tamu.edu

In this episode, Andrew and Lance talk with Dr. Antonia De Maio, who is a scientific editor at Cell Press and Cell Reports. Originally from Italy, she earned her PhD at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where she studied RNA biology in the context of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. She later conducted research at Harvard Medical School, focusing on small RNAs using C. elegans as a model organism.

If you want to know more about the Genetics program at Texas A&M or the research discussed in this episode, please visit the following websites:

Genetics IDP: https://genetics.tamu.edu

Genetics Graduate Student Association: https://g2sa.tamu.edu