ALT A man smiling, wearing a plaid shirt and glasses.

ALT A photo of Melissa Pamula in front of some flowers, next to a quote that reads, "The best part about this job is that you get to truly learn something new about the world, about biology. For almost every experiment that you do, even if the protocol has been done before, you're applying it to something new that no one else has ever done. That's the whole point!"

ALT A graphic showing the following quote from Richard She: “A lot of the genetics research that happens in our community is essentially looking at the diversity between humans. What are the genes that make humans different from each other? I feel like a central goal for my research in the future is to draw a completely different distinction. Rather than focusing on differences between humans, I want to think about what are all the genes that have evolved in our shared history to make us unique as humans.”