Welcome Young Science Program student Vishal Shah.

High school rising senior Vishal Shah currently attends Marquette High School in Chesterfield, Missouri. He is spending the summer in the lab working on the mechanism of start-site scanning during transcription initiation in S. cerevisiae.

Welcome new undergraduate: Abheek Raviprasad.

Rising sophomore Abheek Raviprasad is currently majoring in physics at Washington University in Saint Louis. He will be studying single-molecule techniques applied to transcription initiation.