High school student intern
Jackie was an Upward Bound Math and Science summer intern in 2013, and she worked on sequencing the F3H gene from Iochroma with support from NSF DEB 1257541. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at UNL, researching algal biofuels in the lab of Wayne Riekhof with support from a McNair scholarship, an NIH-INBRE scholarship, and the UCARE program. She is now a graduate student in the Guilak Lab at Washington University in St. Louis.