Responding to the concerns of community partners after Hurricane Florence, the Duke Superfund Community Engagement Core worked with community groups and state and local government agencies over the course of several months to assess the safety of fish caught at Lake Sutton. As a result, today the lake has advisory […]
By Jonna Boyda, Summer Research Intern, Di Giulio lab April 20th, 2010 will live in infamy as the beginning of the largest marine oil spill in history. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill killed thousands of marine organisms, including dolphins, turtles, and seabirds, and contaminated nearshore, estuarine, and offshore habitats. The […]
By Ricky Romersi, Summer Research Intern, Meyer Lab I am spending this summer interning for Dr. Joel Meyer, as part of project 3 of the Duke Superfund Research Center. Dr. Meyer’s lab uses the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, as an animal model to investigate the effects of toxicant exposure. C. elegans […]
By Zachary Markovich, Summer Research Intern, Meyer Lab Picture this: it’s a warm summer day in southern California and as you walk around the campus of UCLA, you are suddenly greeted with a mass of people exiting from an auditorium, toting nametags, and excitedly gossiping about worms. This may seem […]
By Patrick Faught, Summer Research Intern, Ferguson Lab, Analytical Chemistry Core This summer I am working in Dr. Lee Ferguson’s lab to quantify the extent of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in the state of North Carolina. PFASs have been extensively used in commercial products over the last 60 years, […]
By Sena McCrory, Summer Research Intern, Research Translation and Community Engagement Cores “So, what threshold should we use for safe arsenic concentrations in garden soils?” “Well, technically, there isn’t any “safe” level of exposure. It’s a continuous scale—it’s not as if on one side of the threshold it’s safe and […]
By Briana Bernstein, Summer Research Intern, Levin Lab Despite being a Carolina undergrad, I entered “enemy territory” this summer to intern with Dr. Ed Levin’s lab at Duke. My passion for neuroscience pushed me past the fierce sports rivalry and into the world of toxicological research. I began examining how […]
By Helina Asrat, Summer Research Intern, Levin Lab My name is Helina Asrat and I am a senior chemistry major at Berea College. After previous internships with the Berea College farm store where I focused on organic methods of pest management, and with a neuroscience lab, I have grown curious […]
By Emily Barefoot, Summer Research Intern, Meyer Lab Close your eyes. Place yourself back in high school, in your freshman biology class. You may be drooling, half asleep, or possibly wondering “When will I EVER need this information in the ‘real world?’” You glance up at the projector screen showcasing […]