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  <a class="page-card__link hwp-order-2" href="">### Ankita Chopde

 </a>**What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?**

What the heck is going on inside a germinal center??

**What's your favorite lab technique?**

Flow cytometry

**What's your go-to coffee/tea order?**

A hot latte

**What's your favorite graduate school memory?**

Playing board games/ video games with my cohort on any trip - Wii sports, Super mario party, jackbox, secret hitler, jenga, cards- nobody gets as competitive as us, and it's my favorite group of people to spend time with!



 

   ![Ankita Chopde ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5516/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-08/Chopde_Ankita.png?itok=ZALFdXdI) 

 

 

 

  <a class="page-card__link hwp-order-2" href="">### JC Lin

 </a>**What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?**

How have viruses evolved alongside humans and vice versa

**What's your favorite lab technique?**

Cryo-EM

**What's your go-to coffee/tea order?**

Iced Mocha/London Fog

**What's your favorite graduate school memory?**

My PI sticking the "Science Matters" sticker I'd brought back from a vendor fair on his office door (and its still there!)



 

   ![JC Lin](/sites/g/files/omnuum5516/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-08/Lin_JC.png?itok=BVb9rCA9) 

 

 

 

  <a class="page-card__link hwp-order-2" href="">### Alex Liu

 </a>**What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?**

How does my fuzzy silly chunky cat know who I am??

**What's your favorite lab technique?**

Flow cytometry!

**What's your go-to coffee/tea order?**

Iced latte with whatever specialty syrup they have

**What's your favorite graduate school memory?**

Ski trip with my cohort &lt;3



 

   ![Alex Liu](/sites/g/files/omnuum5516/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-08/Liu_Alex.png?itok=APz_16wW) 

 

 

 

  <a class="page-card__link hwp-order-2" href="">### Corazón Núñez

 </a>**What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?**

Protein synthesis with reversed chirality

**What's your favorite lab technique?**

Cryo-electron microscopy

**What's your go-to coffee/tea order?**

Large iced latte

**What's your favorite graduate school memory?**

Dinner parties with my cohort!



 

   ![Corazón Núñez](/sites/g/files/omnuum5516/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-08/N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Coraz%C3%B3n-2.jpg?itok=C5gfukru) 

 

 

 

  <a class="page-card__link hwp-order-2" href="">### Jessica Oros

 </a>**What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?**

How can we be best prepared for future spillover of animal viruses?

**What's your favorite lab technique?**

Freezing cryo-EM grids

**What's your go-to coffee/tea order?**

Lavender iced chai with oat milk

**What's your favorite graduate school memory?**

Cohort late fall/early winter hiking trip to New Hampshire



 

   ![Jessica Oros](/sites/g/files/omnuum5516/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-08/Oros_Jessica.jpeg?h=392b42a1&itok=NvljAoc3) 

 

 

 

  <a class="page-card__link hwp-order-2" href="">### Ashley Tseng

 </a>**What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?**

Why do my flower bushes grow so big but nothing blooms??

**What's your favorite lab technique?**

Flow cytometry

**What's your go-to coffee/tea order?**

Iced tea and lemonade (who needs hot tea?)

**What's your favorite graduate school memory?**

Our first year retreat to Maine during MLK weekend where we spent time skiing, cooking, and playing games with each together. It was really fun getting to hang out together in a cozy cabin while it was snowing outside. Even the road trip up was so much fun!



 

   ![Ashley Tseng](/sites/g/files/omnuum5516/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-08/Tseng_Ashley.jpeg?h=002b3070&itok=lxPcVisi)