Eva Scholz-Carlson ’24 has many interests — neuroscience, rugby, and composing music for the Columbia Spectator — that provide her with a distinct energy and passion.
The busy senior spends most of her afternoons immersed in assistant professor of neuroscience María de la Paz Fernández’s Neurobiology Lab, investigating a neuropeptide that is important in the synchronizing of circadian clock neurons, under the supervision of postdoctoral fellow Aishwarya Iyer.
Selected to participate in the 2023 Beckman Scholars Program — a 15-month award granted to a student for research mentorship in biology, chemistry, or neuroscience and behavior — Scholz-Carlson has a schedule packed with lab meetings and conference travels. In November, she went to Washington, D.C., to attend the Society for Neuroscience’s annual conference to learn about the most recent discoveries in the field. She is planning a trip to Puerto Rico in May 2024 for the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms' Biennial Conference to share research that she has completed in Fernandez’s lab via a poster presentation.
In this video, learn more about Scholz-Carlson and how working with fruit flies, under Fernandez’s guidance, has helped her to see a connection between the smallest life-forms and human life.
—ZUYU SHEN '24
