Kristin Culhane (Neuroscience)

  
  Kristin Culhane graduated from Colorado College in ’99, with a degree in neuroscience. While at CC, Kristin was involved with the Chamber Orchestra, Women’s Club Hockey, and Volunteer Action.

    Kristin is now working at the University of Colorado Health Sciences center.  She is a professional research assistant in the Department of Rheumatology.  Her current projects are not really Neuroscience related, however they have allowed her to learn many basic lab procedures and tests that are used in most research.  The main focus of her research is on the complement system (part of the immune system) and more specifically, on Complement Receptor 2.  She runs many assays testing for auto-antibodies on serum obtained from mice.  In addition, she does a lot of Polymer Chain Reactions, in which a certain piece of DNA is replicated and amplified, thus allowing it to be more easily studied.

    Kristin is currently preparing to apply for Graduate School in a Neuroscience program, but she also intends to apply to Medical School as well.  She feels her research job has shown her what research would be like as a career, and believes that it was a valuable learning experience, but not an area in which she would like to continue.

    Kristin feels that the Block Plan was a very good way for her to learn, and that her retention of information is better than she expected.  She learns information more quickly, and has better study habits after CC. (4/30/01)