Splash Biography



RILEY DRAKE, BC Freshman Studying Biochemistry



Major: Biochemistry

College/Employer: BC

Year of Graduation: 2016

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

My love of the biological and physical sciences (turned obsession) began at Johns Hopkins University's summer programs (CTY). Since then, I've been reading all the science I can get my hands on, and working as a laboratory assistant in Dr. Jonathan Powell's Immunology Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.



Past Classes

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S621: The Army Inside You in Splash Fall 2012 (Nov. 04, 2012)
Risk or Diplomacy? What about life or death? A whirlwind introduction to insane, yet strategic battles that go on in your body every day (and how they can go terribly awry). This course will focus primarily on the t-cell response and how diseases are an evolving, as opposed to a static, threat.


S622: Poisons: An Introduction in Splash Fall 2012 (Nov. 04, 2012)
Arsenic and old lace? Beginner luck! Everything you never wanted to know about neurotoxins (and other nasty stuff). This course will be a whirlwind introduction, loosely based off the book 'The Poisoner's Handbook' by Deborah Blum and the work of Vil Mirzayanov, inventor of the world's most potent neurotoxin, Novichok-5.