Nicole Torosin, STEM Scholar

Nicole Torosin, McC ’14, Biology Concentration: Cell and Molecular Biology

Nicole became interested in a STEM discipline and research in high school when she did independent research on cloud seeding. One summer she was rewarded by getting a position at the National Center of Atmospheric Research in Colorado—the first high school student to work there. As a freshman at NU she began doing research in the Morimoto Lab winter quarter doing testing on genes in respect to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease. “I have been working through the RNAi of 134 genes known to control one of the stress responses and my goal is to see whether they also control the others. Once I find genes of interest I will test how they control stress responses in human cells.”