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BMB Community Profiles

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This page was created to celebrate the perspectives of our community members who want to share a little bit about their stories and lives. We recognize that the range of life experiences represented in our community is much less diverse than the State of Michigan or the United States as a whole, and that continuous effort and concrete actions are necessary to correct this. Consequently, by sharing our profiles, we hope to forge new connections based on common interests and experiences. Please contact Dr. Michaela TerAvest if you are a member of the BMB community and you'd like to share your story! (updated Nov 20, 2020)
Please visit the webpage for the BMB DEI committee and College of Natural Science DEI website to learn about specific actions related to hiring, admissions, and community support.
Paul Fiesel - Student Profile
Paul Fiesel - Student Profile
Paul is a graduate student in Rob Last's lab
 
Lina Gomez Cano - Student Profile
Lina Gomez Cano - Student Profile
Lina is a graduate student in the Grotewold lab
 
Sophia Lunt - BMB Community Profile
Sophia Lunt - BMB Community Profile
Sophia overcame discrimination as a young person to become an award-winning professor who studies how metabolism affects human disease 
 
Amy Ralston - BMB Community Profile
Amy Ralston - BMB Community Profile
Amy's life long love of developmental biology began with a job as an undergraduate dishwasher in a university biology lab
 
Michaela TerAvest - BMB Community Profile
Michaela TerAvest - BMB Community Profile
Mentoring and exploring many career options helped Michaela become an innovative researcher who engineers microbes for bioenergy production 
 
Erich Grotewold - BMB Community Profile
Erich Grotewold - BMB Community Profile
Trained as a chemist in Argentina, Erich continues to move west and north as he tries to decipher the secrets of the regulation of plant gene expression
 
Rob Last - BMB Community Profile
Rob Last - BMB Community Profile
An early love of organic chemistry and ornithology lead to Rob becoming a highly successful scientist and a leader in his field while generating support for underrepresented/marginalized people in STEM
 
Jenn Watts - BMB Community Profile
Jenn Watts - BMB Community Profile
As a young scientist inspired by technical advances in developmental biology, Jenn seeks to ask why diseases differentially impact people and communities
Josh Vermaas - BMB Community Profile
Josh Vermaas - BMB Community Profile
Undergraduate research put Josh on a path to save the world with computers, designing simulations to figure out the natural world