Melissa Gajda
I am a Research Technician 2 within the lab. I started with Duke as an animal technician for DLAR in 2020. In that position I got to work closely with the Hartman lab, as well as their animals on a daily basis. Now as a member of the lab, I use the knowledge I’ve gained to assist in their studies directly. I mostly perform various surgeries, injections, and dissections on mice to collect data for research as well as breed them to make solid models for various types of cancer. To further broaden my horizons, I have also taken up performing various assays and cell culture work, something I hope to expand on even more in the future with this lab.
