My advice would be to figure out what your broad interests are, and start looking for professors whose research matches those interests.
Anne Lemek
Microbiology
Research Topic: Isolation of Daphnia-associated Microbes in Pursuit of Spirobacillus cienkowskii
Graduation Year: 2025
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Research Poster Located in the Neighborhood Engagement Centers
Research Experience
Current
• Impact of environmental conditions on multi-species infection involving zooplankton pathogen
Previous
• Characterization of pigment biosynthesis pathway proteins in zooplankton pathogen
• Generation of in-host infection farms for studying zooplankton pathogen
Experience With
• Confocal microscopy
• Databank-based protein sequence analysis
• In vivo cell culture
• Quantification of cells
• Coding in RStudio for data analysis and visualization
Campus Involvement
• College of Natural Science Dean's Research Scholar
• MSU Science Olympiad
• MSU Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Club
Post-Graduation Plans
• Graduate School
