Francesca was an undergraduate researcher who is now studying as a graduate student at the University of California- San Francisco.

Project description:

The goal of my project is to study the function of viral miRNAs.

Biography:

B.S. in Human Biology at the University of Texas at Austin, 2014

Awards:

2013 Howard Hughes Medical Institue (HHMI) Capstone Award

2012 HHMI Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP) Award

2012 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students  (ABRCMS) Travel Award

2012 ABRCMS Cellular Biology Poster Presentation Competition Award

2011 Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NSF-LSAMP) Summer Research Fellowship

2011 NSF-LSAMP Delegate to United Nations World Science Forum in Budapest, Hungary

“When I'm not in the lab you will most-likely find me sampling different kinds of margaritas around Austin.”