Aaron Daugherty '09

About Aaron

Aaron, an Ethyl Albermarle Science Scholar, graduated with honors from Richmond with a degree in biology. Aaron studied abroad in Australia at the University of Queensland.

Aaron was awarded a summer 2009 internship by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) through the University of Richmond to conduct a ten week independent research project with a HHMI scientist. He chose to work with, and was accepted by Dr. Santuza M.R. Teixeira, professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.  Dr. Teixeira studies the causative agent of the potentially fatal Chagas disease: Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasitic protozoan (protozoa = single celled eukaryotes [eukaryotes = more complex then bacteria, and include every organism you can see]), as well as mechanisms controlling gene expression and genomic variability. Aaron will assist with research on gene expression that occurs during the parasite life cycle, and the activity of DNA recombination and repair machinery responsible for the genetic diversity observed in the T. Cruzi population.

After Brazil, Aaron will travel to Indonesia on a Fulbright Grant as an English teaching assistant in South Sulawesi at an Islamic Boarding School. 

Contact Aaron

Aaron invites students to contact him about his experiences at Richmond and abroad. 

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