Sarah Stanhope: Graduate Ag Research Spotlight

"I love the process of going through protocols start to finish. You come in every day and say, ‘Nobody in the world knows this yet, and I’m going to try to figure it out."
~ Sarah Stanhope, PhD candidate, Department of Biochemistry
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Sarah Stanhope, is a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry at ‪@PurdueUniversity‬ Her research uses Drosophila (fruit fly) as a model organism because their eyes are similar to humans. By using flies as a model, it's possible to study aging neurodegeneration, specifically ocular disease quickly, in zero to 60 days instead of years,
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