| Faculty Advisor |
Jennifer Auchtung
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| Contact Email | jauchtung2@unl.edu |
| Website | |
| Advisor College: |
Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
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| Potential Student Tasks |
Responsibilities include participating in lab meetings where we discuss ongoing research and relevant papers from the scientific literature, assisting graduate students as they prepare experiments, and performing experiments once you have gained sufficient background training. |
| Student Qualifications |
Interest in scientific research, good interpersonal skills, ability to follow protocols and receive constructive feedback, good time management, curiosity. |
| Training, Mentoring, and Workplace Community |
You will spend time working one-on-one with me and with the other students in my lab to learn new techniques and design research studies. Students in my lab will often continue beyond their first year because they enjoy their experience working in the lab. |
| Available Positions |
1
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Our lab studies how the microbes that colonize your digestive tract can interact with your diet and pathogens that you encounter to keep you healthy. Students who work in my lab learn basic microbiology and molecular biology skills that will be very useful for students interested in future careers in research. Students interested in medical school, pharmacy school, and dental school have also benefited from the biomedical focus of the research in our lab.