BTP Trainees’ Summer 2019 Internships

 

Margaux Audettheadshot of Margaux Audett, NIH Trainee 2016-18
maudett@umass.edu
Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology
Lab: Thomas Maresca
Research Interests: Kinetochore proteins in the spindle assembly checkpoint during cell division.
Internship Host: Intellia Therapeutics

 

Monika Royheadshot of Monika Roy, NIH Trainee 2017-2019
monikaroy@umass.edu
Graduate Program: Global Environmental Health Sciences
Lab: Alicia Timme-Laragy
Research Interests: Understanding how environmental contaminants impact cellular and organ development of the pancreas and impact subsequent metabolic disease outcomes.
Internship Host: Emulate Bio. Check out Monika’s internship experience at Emulate here!

 

headshot of Khushboo SinghKhushboo Singh, UMass Fellow 2017-19
ksingh@umass.edu
Graduate Program: Chemistry
Lab: Sankaran (Thai) Thayumanavan
Research Interests: Developing a platform for conjugation of a monoclonal antibody (mAb), specific for a tumor antigen, on to a polymeric nanogel composed of polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the hydrophilic unit and pyridyl disulfide (PDS) as the hydrophobic unit.
Internship Host: Vertex