Here at the Settles Lab, we love to participate in science outreach! Below are some examples of the outreach work we have done in the past. If you are interested in participating in outreach with our lab, please use the contact form below to reach out to us. We look forward to hearing from you!
Our lab routinely trains undergraduate students interested in gaining experience in a scientific laboratory. Undergraduates who have worked in our lab have gone on to graduate with honors and/or enter graduate school. We have experience working with McNair Scholars and students enrolled in federal work-study programs. If you are an undergraduate student at UF or Santa Fe interested in plant biology, plant genetics, or any of the Research done in our lab we would love to hear from you! Please use the contact form below to reach out to us.
For example, Anadaisy Aguirre (pictured to the right) currently works in the Settles Lab. She is learning the basics of genetic mapping and is also involved with the maintenance of our space algae lines. Anadaisy is an undergraduate student at UF majoring in Biology with a minor in Innovation, and she is a McNair Scholar.
Every summer, we host students from Florida A&M University (FAMU) for summer research projects on molecular biology and maize genetics. These summer internships are part of a long-term collaboration between Dr. Settles and Dr. Gokhan Hacisalihoglu at FAMU. The program has trained a total of 18 minority undergraduate students, many of whom continued on into STEM graduate programs. If you are an undergraduate student at FAMU and are interested in this program, please reach out to us using the contact form to the right.
