Graduate student Emily Van Syoc has been working hard these last three years during her PhD candidacy at Penn State. Emily is completing a PhD in Integrative and Biomedical Physiology under the Huck Institute of the Life Sciences.
She has participated in various research projects throughout the Ganda Lab, helping others when they need it and completing lab work as necessary. Emily is advised by Dr. Ganda in the Ganda Lab, but she is also co-advised by Dr. Connie Rogers in the College of Health and Human Development.
This past Thursday, March 31, 2022, Emily was awarded the Paul Hand Research Award. This award is given to graduate students in the college of agriculture sciences who are doing extremely well in research including lab work, publishing papers, obtaining grants, and presenting at conferences. Emily has had multiple publications during her time here in the Ganda Lab as well as presentations of abstracts at several conferences. She is even presenting an abstract this June at the American Society for Microbiology Conference in Washington D.C. Emily’s main research has been on how Metformin impacts the gut mycobiome, specifically doing her research in a metadata format with several countries around the world. Emily has also done research with dairy, chickens, and mice.
Emily makes all of us in the lab proud to see her accomplishing great things and we know she will go far as a scientist. Congratulations Emily!
