Getting Research-y

Over the summer after my first year at UW, I started my job as a Student Helper in a lab at the Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute. Within the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research is the lab I work in, the Kaushansky Lab, a malaria research lab. I spent my summer getting up close and personal with mosquitoes as I worked in the insectary, raising mosquitoes to be distributed to various malaria labs and infected with rodent malaria to be studied. I wrote more about it as my first Experiential Learning, which you can check out here.

An image from a microscope of a mosquito midgut I dissected. The darker circles are the malaria parasite oocysts.