Wendy Smith
The Smith lab uses these organisms to study the regulation of growth and immune function.
What are insects?
Often called sea cows, these animals like to munch on cabbage and lettuce.
What are manatees?
The term for different forms of a gene.
What is allele?"
This funny-sounding bone connects the shoulder and elbow.
What is the humerus?
She helped discover the structure of DNA in the 1950s.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
In this year, Dr. Smith started her career at Northeastern during a time when Back to the Future was all the rage.
What is 1985?
Featured as a special agent in the Disney channel show Phineas and Ferb, this creature is a semi-aquatic egg laying mammal.
What is a platypus?
The famous Austrian monk who is considered the father of genetics?
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This part of the brain is responsible for regulating the body’s temperature and controlling hunger and thirst.
What is the hypothalamus?
This primatologist and conservationist is best known for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Who is Jane Goodall?
Located in Durham, NC, Dr. Smith received her PhD from this esteemed university.
What is Duke University?
They say to think with your head and feel with your heart, but this sea creature’s heart is in its head.
What is a shrimp?
Human blood types are an example of this inheritance pattern.
What is codominance?
This remarkable organ is capable of regenerating itself.
What is the liver?
This pioneering scientist discovered two elements and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
Also the name of a popular eatery in Mission Hill, Dr.Smith’s PhD dissertation was on hormonal regulation of cell death in the molting glands of this organism.
What is a milkweed bug?
"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow” is a common phrase used to identify this animal.
What is a coral snake?
This technique for amplifying specific regions of DNA involves the use of temperature cycles to denature, anneal, and extend DNA strands.
What is polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
This is the fastest moving muscle in the human body.
What is the eye?
This American physician was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Name two courses Dr. Smith has taught during her time at Northeastern.
What is Cell and Molecular Bio, Cell Biology, Endocrinology, Topics in Cell Biology: Biology of Aging, Capstone in Biology, Entomology, Anatomy and Physiology, or Regulatory Cell Biology?
Sometimes kept as a pet, this amphibian is unusual in that it reaches adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis.
What is an axolotl?
These two chromosomes have the highest and lowest number of genes in the human body.
What are chromosome 1 and the Y chromosome?
This is the number of miles of blood vessels in an adult human.
What is 100,000?
This Nobel Prize-winning geneticist is known for her work on the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system.
Who is Jennifer Doudna?