Last week, Dr. Jim Morris and Ph.D. student Sabrina Pizarro attended the 4th annual REDDI Lab Symposium, where Sabrina presented a poster on her work characterizing putative T. brucei NHE transporters titled, “Exploration of Putative Sodium/Proton Excahngers in Trypanosoma brucei.”
In addition, Sabrina Pizarro has been awarded an EPIC Graduate Translational Research Assistantship (GTRA). The GTRA is a pilot program in its second year sponsored by the Eukaryotic Pathogen Innovation Center (EPIC), the Graduate School, Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) and the REDDI Laboratory.
The primary objective of this assistantship is to provide EPIC Ph.D. students with a broad range of translational experiences that will be of importance to them over their careers.
This spring, Sabrina will intern in the REDDI lab to gain experience working in a clinical lab setting. The Research and Education in Disease Diagnosis and Intervention Laboratory (REDDI Lab) is home to Clemson University’s first high-complexity Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certified facility.
In addition to learning RT-PCR based diagnostic panels, she will learn to utilize robotic plate readers allowing for higher throughput of the trypanosome drug discovery assays performed in the Morris lab.
