Rufina Kamaletdinova
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Rufina is a rising senior at Hunter College pursuing a degree in the Biological Sciences. She is minoring in Mathematics and English as well. Rufina is a part of the Yalow Scholars Honors Program and the President of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Chapter on Campus at Hunter College. As a freshman, Rufina worked at Dr. Diana P. Bratu's lab at Hunter College for 5 months, studying the movement of mRNA and its interaction with proteins during the development of the fruit fly egg. This summer, Rufina worked at Dr. Danny G. Winder's lab at the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research, where she investigated whether a potential comorbidity of alcohol- and stress-induced negative affect produces a behavioral adaptation to the rewarding effects of cocaine. Rufina also presented her poster at the Vanderbilt Summer Science Academy Research Symposium, the SfN conference in San Diego, the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the Icahn School of Medicine, the ABRCMS, and the ERN conference.
She is currently working at Dr. Allyson K. Friedman's lab at Hunter College studying a role of the mesocorticolimbic pathway in resilience to stress using mice as a model organism. She is looking forward to ultimately obtaining a faculty position after finishing her graduate studies in neuroscience. |
