Summer Undergraduate Research with Lois and Osiris

Welcome to Blue Genes and Boots everyone!In this episode, Joe Romanowski and Madison Williamson host two of their fellow second-year Ph. D. students in the Genetics IDP- Lois Gordils Valentine and Osiris Lopez Garcia. Joe and Madison got to chat with Lois and Osiris about their experiences doing summer undergraduate research experiences and how those experiences prepared them for their graduate school career.Lois and Osiris both hail from the island of Puerto Rico. They both pursued science on the island in addition to the research programs that they participated in here in the US. Since joining the Genetics and Genomics Ph. D. program here, Osiris has joined the lab of Dr. Daniel Paredes-Sabja, and Lois joined Dr. Xuejun Zhu's lab.If you want to know more about the Genetics program at Texas A&M or the SURGe undergraduate research program, please visit the following websites:Genetics IDP: https://genetics.tamu.edu Genetics Graduate Student Association: https://g2sa.tamu.edu SURGe: https://genetics.tamu.edu/surge-application/