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Jessica Desamero

Articles by Jessica Desamero

Annual Meeting
What indirectly links brain disease to COVID-19?
March 22, 2022
Armin Bayati, a JBC Herbert Tabor Early Career Investigator Award winner, will present his lab’s research at the ASBMB annual meeting in April.

Student Chapters
Chapter leader values diversity, outreach and interaction
Feb. 2, 2022
As a member of the Rochester Institute of Technology Student Chapter executive board, Nana Aikins helped to get other students involved in research.

Wellness
I get by with a little help from my pets (and other animals)
Jan. 6, 2022
“I used to check my email or social media first thing in the morning. For the sake of my mental health, I … went straight to taking my pets out. This helps me have calmer mornings.”

Journal News
A new way of looking at HDL in pregnancy
Nov. 30, 2021
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine explore the compositional complexity of high-density lipoprotein in expectant mothers.

In Memoriam
In memoriam: Stephen Prescott
Sept. 20, 2021
A former JBC associate editor and president of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, he wrote about his journey with cancer.

Wellness
New-ish adventures help me reconnect
Jan. 12, 2021
“One day in April while working from home, I was feeling particularly down, and every negative thought weighed down on me all at once. To counter this feeling, I thought, ‘Hey, what if I try something different and new?’”

Wellness
How volunteering enriched my life as a Ph.D. student
Jan. 15, 2020
"From failed experiments to weak presentations, I sometimes doubt myself as a researcher. Science outreach boosts my spirits in these times of self-doubt."