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Nina Morse
May 9, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Three Mayo Clinic researchers and St. Olaf alums have an exciting flipped classroom event for pre-health, biology, chemistry, and STEM students!
- Links to public videos and articles about NGS testing (through Mayo external websites — see 3 links below!) will be provided to students prior to the event so that they can learn about the research and think of any questions to ask at the event.
- Then, on Tuesday, May 9th from 7-8 p.m., students will meet in RNS 190 to join the Zoom meeting for a Q&A and discussion! Students will have the opportunity to get a glimpse into clinical research from 3 unique perspectives!
Links to articles/videos to provide background on clinical NGS testing performed in CGSL:
o https://news.mayocliniclabs.com/2020/07/29/next-generation-sequencing-examining-an-often-oversimplified-misunderstood-technology-part-i/
o https://news.mayocliniclabs.com/2020/08/27/next-generation-sequencing-examining-an-often-oversimplified-misunderstood-technology-part-ii/
o https://news.mayocliniclabs.com/2021/01/18/next-generation-sequencing-examining-an-often-oversimplified-misunderstood-technology-part-iii/
Guest Speakers:
Susan Henke (’99) is Education Specialist II and an Instructor in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. The laboratory she works in is the Clinical Genome Sequencing Laboratory (CGSL), and she has been part of this team since the laboratory was formed in 2012. She started working at Mayo Clinic in a research laboratory around 3 months after graduating from St. Olaf. CGSL is a core laboratory performing the services of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) – library preparation, sequencing, and bioinformatic analyses – for NGS assays that are owned by various clinical laboratories within Mayo’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP). Her career path within CGSL (clinical laboratory work) is the most self-driven decade of her career.
Lori Tillmans (’92) is a Technical Specialist Coordinator in charge of the CGSL Technical Specialists group, a more advanced role ensuring that everything related to clinical testing run smoothly.
Samantha Yang (’17) is a Clinical Laboratory Technologist actively performing clinical testing – this is the role into which recent undergraduates typically are hired in DLMP.
If you have any questions about this event, feel free to email one of the Pre-Health Club execs!
Learn more at http://stolaf.presence.io/event/nina-morse
