Rufina Kamaletdinova
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Rufina is a junior at Hunter College pursuing a degree in Biological Sciences. She 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. She will present her summer research findings at the upcoming SfN conference in San Diego as well.
She is currently working at Dr. Allyson K. Friedman's lab at Hunter College studying depression using mice as a model organism. She is looking forward to ultimately obtaining a faculty position after finishing her graduate studies in neuroscience. |
