Alumni Corner
Ryan Dhindsa, Class of 2011
Ryan Dhindsa, 2011
Ryan Dhindsa has just started his freshman year at Duke University, and is off to a great start. He is working at Duke's Center for Human Genome Variation, under the direction of Dr. David Goldstein, who is The Duke University Richard and Pat Johnson Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Human Genome Variation. Being accepted into Dr. Goldstein’s laboratory is a great and unprecedented honor for a first-year student. Ryan is studying specific genetic mutations that seem to cause HIV immunity and analyzing how these mutations can help create new treatments.
David Hoffman, Class of 2005
David Hoffman, 2005
Next Big Sound, David's recent venture, has made the top 25 in Bloomberg Businessweek's 2011 Best Young Entrepreneurs.
From Bloomberg Businessweek:
As record labels try to find their footing online, Next Big Sound is selling bands a tool to get more out of their social media marketing investments. Conceived in an undergraduate entrepreneurship class at Northwestern University, the service tracks fans’ activity on Twitter, YouTube, and other online destinations for hundreds of thousands of bands then packages the information in an online dashboard. [more]
Mario Rosasco, Class of 2005
Mario Rosasco, 2005
Since graduating with the SRS class of '05, Mario has gone on to earn his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in neuroscience and endocrinology. He has been happily doing research for the past three years, mostly working in labs with focuses on biophysics and electrophysiology. Mario recently moved from Chicago to Seattle, where he has begun working towards his PhD in pharmacologyat the University of Washington.
Currently in his research, Mario is most fascinated by electrical and chemical signaling at neuronal synapses, and by the proteins which enable this signaling. He enjoys working with fluorescence imaging and electrical recordings, and hopes to use these techniques to elucidate the way our nervous system stores and processes information.
Recently, Mario has filling up his spare time by biking, playing guitar, reading, writing computer programs, and learning the Latvian language.
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