 I'm Danielle Lohman and I'm a fourth year graduate student, I'm studying biochemistry and I work in Dave Paglarini's lab and my research is funded by both the National Science Foundation and by National Institutes of Health Biotechnology Training Program which is a training program that lets you interact with the multidisciplinary team of scientists and lets you do an internship. So there were really probably two reasons that I chose to come to Wisconsin and to be part of the biotechnology training program. I think the first is diversity of thought, so the biotechnology training program has scientists from all over. I mean we have biochemistry people, we have medical physics, we have biomedical engineering you name it and in all of those different fields we each kind of think about problems in a different way. So we choose different problems to work on and then we have different ways to solve those problems, ways to test them and the ones we actually have a solution we apply it in different ways. So I liked having that diversity and being able to learn from all my other, all the other BTP fellows. The second reason why I chose to be part of the BTP program is probably the fact that it offers an internship opportunity. So I love doing research in the academic lab but I think sometimes it's hard to get out of the university when you're academic and even harder for a scientist to get outside of the laboratory because I kind of saw that internship is a way to get my foot into the door of something else. So I chose to do an internship at a startup company, at a non-profit organization, they're based in Washington DC and they're called health security partners and the mission of the company is really to help solve global health security challenges. So these could be things like preventing the spread of infectious disease like Ebola, this could be slowing down antimicrobial resistance, it could be preventing bioterrorism. So really there's a lot of challenges that we face in our lifetimes and a lot of them have a lot to do with science, steeped in science and we need scientific solutions. So the Paglarini lab is really at the beginnings of discovery so we do basic science research so we're at the level where we're really just trying to understand how biology works and specifically we're interested in the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell and one of the, it's hard to choose which protein you're going to study so one of the ways that our laboratory chooses is we choose proteins that are connected to human disease because a lot of these proteins we know have ties to human disease and it'd be nice to know what they're doing then these patients may have a chance of having treatments that work. One of the biggest benefits of the internship experience that I've brought back with me into the laboratory is thinking about science beyond just the experiment that I'm setting up that day or tomorrow or next week and to think about how the research that I'm doing might impact the world and outside of the laboratory and then thinking even more more broad than that how science in general can impact the world.