My name is Donna Episcopio, and I am currently a Freshman at the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College. I am pursuing a major in Biology and a double minor in Chemistry and the Business and Liberal Arts Honors Track. I am also a research assistant in the biology laboratory of Dr. Zahra Zakeri. My current research focuses on the effects of flu virus (influenza) infection on the morphology, viability, stress responses, and bioenergetics of Madin Darby Canine Kidney cells. In addition, I am currently participating in a collaboration project on ovarian cancer at Yale University. In short, you can pretty much expect to find me under the fume hood in my downtime and in between classes, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.