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>> My name is Cedar Michell, I am a sophomore and my major is micro biology.
>>I work for the center of microbial genetics
and genomics. Its directed by Dr. Paul Keim, and my mentor is Dawn Birdsell.
>> Cedar is very bright, motivated, and she
has a curiosity, an interest to really understand.
>> She guides me, she teaches me. I have learned an incredible amount.
>> The center is focused upon analyzing microbes,
and especially ones that cause infectious diseases.
>> Im working with an organism called
Francisella tularensis, which causes the disease tularemia or rabbit fever.
>> I'm looking at these samples and seeing
how dangerous they are and where it potentially came from and the consequences and how to
stop that.
>> My favorite part would probably be the opportunities it gives me. I get to work with
really interesting things. I never imagined that I would be able to work with diseases
like this. So I feel incredibly fortunate.
>> We train a work force that can go out and
do many different things. It is a direct training program as well as having, you know, an impact on upon
how medicine works.
>> I am nineteen years old and I am working in collaboration with scientists all over
the world, and I get to work in the lab, I get to do the research and not very many undergraduates
have these opportunities.
>> It's our core mission. NAU is primarily an undergraduate institution, and so undergraduates
come first here.
>> It's just and honor to be able to work in a place that has that high of technology
and research.