jack dorman
Undergraduate student | Purdue University | department of biological sciences | carpi lab |
915 W. State Street | West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907
I was raised the second youngest of eight in Central Kentucky. My fascination with biology was ingrained at an early age on my family’s frequent hikes and camping trips as well as through reading books on infectious disease. At 16, I was accepted into an early college program at Morehead State University in Eastern Kentucky where I spent two years taking undergraduate courses and becoming enthralled with lab research through characterizing novel bacteriophage of Mycobacterium smegmatis. From there I enrolled at Purdue University where I am pursuing a double major in Microbiology and Cell/Molecular/Developmental Biology. My first semester I worked on several projects in the Deering Lab in the Department of Food Science studying transmission of major enteric pathogens. The following semester I was accepted by Dr. Carpi into Carpi Lab. Here, I have worked on several projects related to malaria evolution but my primary interests lie in the symbiotic interactions between the malaria parasite and vector microbiome as well as broader vector-parasite coevolutionary relationships. In my spare time I continue my family’s tradition of hiking as well as collecting jars from local aquatic ecosystems, reading classic science fiction and murder mysteries, and baby-sitting the many nieces and nephews.
