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Harvard SHURP Program Summer Intern
Marissa Padilla joins us this summer as a Harvard Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) program intern. Marissa is a rising senior at New Mexico State University, where she is pursuing a B.S. in Biology. Marissa is working closely with Dr. Laura Murray-Nerger to study roles of the acetyltransferase enzyme ESCO2 in control of the Epstein-Barr virus genome and lytic gene regulation.