Ethan Trim ’22 (left) and Nakesha Agyapong ’22 (right) study lung stem cell aging in canines, such as this slide that depicts lung stem cells moving across a culture plate from a piece of lung tissue (center).
Senior biology majors Nakesha Agyapong ’22 and Ethan Trim ’22 have been lab partners since meeting through the First-Year Advancement Program (FRAP). For the last three years, they have worked together in the lab of Associate Professor of Biology Julia Paxson, DVM, where they’ve helped show that stem cells in canines of varying ages behave differently. This summer, as part of the Weiss Summer Research Program, the longtime lab partners investigated why — with the hope that their research into canine aging could one day help humans age better.