Christian Lu
Biography
Fun Fact: I lack the ability to visualize things in my head (aphantasia)
你好, I'm Christian, hailing from Arkansas and ensconced in Biochemistry. I really just enjoy doing research (when I'm not playing ping pong). I find it to be extremely intuitive and exciting on top of how impactful doing research can be. I'm excited about the PSP program (the main reason why I chose Brown tbh) as a way of jumpstarting my research career here at Brown.
Research
This past spring, I started working in the Vasudevan Lab here at Brown, and I've continued with them into the summer. We're looking into how resistant cancer cells communicate with each other through extracellular vesicles (EVs), and my project focuses on the RNA changes that happen during stress. Essentially, the goal is to get a better handle on how these cancers manage to survive treatment. The biggest thing I've learned so far is how to run the entire research process on my own, all the way from culturing the cells to performing the final data analysis with R. Next semester, I'll be in the Lawler Lab looking at circRNA approaches in Glioblastoma.