Undergraduate Keisha Barnes receives summer fellowship award
- Post by: Steve Burke
- April 12, 2022
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Congratulations to Keisha Barnes for receiving a summer fellowship for the Applying Scientific Knowledge (ASK) program in the Voss lab here at Wright State. Keisha is a sophomore who joined the lab at the beginning of Spring 2022 as a participant in the ASK program. The ASK program is an experiential learning program that gives undergraduate students the opportunity to get involved in research by working with a faculty mentor in their lab. Students get to choose from many research proposals that are submitted by research faculty. The student is then matched with a project and the student works in that lab to learn how to do the research. The project is completed over the course of two to three semesters. As a part of the program students can apply for NSF S-STEM scholarships and a summer fellowship that provides the student with funding for the project as well as a monthly stipend for the duration of the fellowship.
Keisha was matched with a project proposal submitted by Dr. Voss. Keisha is learning how to perform electrophysiology in order to study neuromuscular transmission. She has been working closely with Katie Trittschuh and Steve Burke in the lab to learn how to perform microdissections as well as how to set up and run electrophysiology experiments. Keisha is helping with a time course study of defects in neurotransmission in Huntington’s disease. Her work in the lab will help us understand the progression of defects at the neuromuscular junction a mouse model of Huntington’s disease. Her work also examines bi-directional signaling between nerve and muscle. Keisha has excelled since she started working in the lab and we are proud of her for receiving the summer fellowship!