This is a throw back episode. If you want to see the video, go to YouTube, or follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EId7LEXGwSk&t=379s
Ruby O'Lexy is a PhD candidate. In her own words: I study how cells communicate with each other. For all multicellular organisms, cell-cell communication is an essential process in coordinating development and interacting with the environment. More specifically, I study how cells in plant roots communicate with each other under agriculturally challenging conditions such as low nutrients or heavy metal contamination. The biggest gap between potential and achieved crop yield is because of bad soils, so this is a real problem in feeding our ever growing global population.
She believes it is important to understand that there are Latinas in STEM - she is one, and she encourages more to young girls to follow in her footsteps
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