Hi! My name is Claire Gould and I am from Denver, Colorado. I am a senior at CU majoring in EBIO and MCDB and minoring in English. When I am not in school or doing research for the lab, I like to play soccer, hike, and be outside in Boulder. After doing research for almost 2 years in this lab and studying Human Evolution at Oxford University, I plan to go to graduate school for genetics or human evolution.
In the Medeiros Lab, I focus on researching genes associated with cartilage developmental evolution in embryonic lamprey to decipher a part of the signaling cascades involved in mucocartilage or joint tissue formation in the vertebrate head skeleton. I perform in situ hybridizations, sectioning, staining, and CRISPR/CAS9 to visualize the importance of these genes in head skeleton development and cartilage evolution. As a BSI Scholar for the summer 2020 and academic year, I examined TGFBR genes, and the continuation of my research has included genes identified in the same network, including SOXE3, GDF5, and TRPSA. I am now funded with a summer UROP grant, and am defending my Honors Thesis in this lab in the Fall of 2021.
In the Medeiros Lab, I focus on researching genes associated with cartilage developmental evolution in embryonic lamprey to decipher a part of the signaling cascades involved in mucocartilage or joint tissue formation in the vertebrate head skeleton. I perform in situ hybridizations, sectioning, staining, and CRISPR/CAS9 to visualize the importance of these genes in head skeleton development and cartilage evolution. As a BSI Scholar for the summer 2020 and academic year, I examined TGFBR genes, and the continuation of my research has included genes identified in the same network, including SOXE3, GDF5, and TRPSA. I am now funded with a summer UROP grant, and am defending my Honors Thesis in this lab in the Fall of 2021.