Alex Torson is a Research Computational Biologist at the USDA-ARS in Fargo, North Dakota.  His expertise includes transcriptomics, bioinformatics and insect physiology.  Most of his current projects focus on the transcriptional regulation of diapause and cold tolerance in many economically important insects including the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata.  Alex says his dream project would include breaking…

George Boateng-Sarfo is a Graduate Research Assistant at North Dakota State University.  In the past, George has worked as a Biomedical Research Scientist at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research and the US Naval Medical Research Unit-3, Ghana Detachment. As a member of the Next-Generation Sequencing core team, he worked on identifying pathogens that cause Acute…

Joshua Rinehart is a master’s student at North Dakota State University.  His expertise includes DNA extractions, running QPCR, and troubleshooting in both the lab and field.  He is currently working on a nesting preference experiment where he gave alfalfa bees different sized nesting cavities to see where they prefer to nest and how that effects…

“Pursue what you love even if it takes a lot of time, you are going to be living through those years anyway, you might as well spend them working towards the things you want and love in life.” Taylor Hatcher is an undergraduate researcher at the University of Wyoming in the Dillon Lab.  Her expertise is…