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Journey to a Ph.D.

April 26, 2015

Eleanor Bors opted to skip her commencement exercises at Oberlin in 2009 to get an early start in WHOI’s annual Summer Student Fellowship program and join an expedition on the research vessel Kilo Moana. Working with her advisor, WHOI biologist Tim Shank, she investigatied genetic methods to identify populations of worms that live on deep-sea corals on seamounts. Bors is now a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. Her research focuses on how the genomics of invasive species are affected when they expand their habitats. She also took time to participate in the Synergy Project, a collaboration between scientists and artists to create science-inspired works of art.(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)