Congrats to PhD student Mel An Zarate for receiving Graduate Internship Funding from the BU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Mel Ann Zarate, Biological Anthropology Ph.D. student in Christopher Schmitt‘s Lab, has been awarded Graduate Internship Funding from the BU Graduate School of Arts & Science to extend her NSF-funded internship with Zoo New England’s Conservation Genomics Lab at The Broad Institute. Her project, Investigating the genetics of cardiomyopathy in captive gorillas, involves whole genome sequencing to assess potential genetic susceptibility to heart failure, a common cause of death in captive gorillas.
Congratulations, Mel!