Elena Wisely will be joining our research team at GCCRI for her 2009 Summer rotation. Lena is an incoming MD/PhD student at UTHSCSA and plans to pursue translational biomedical research. She is a graduate of Texas State University in San Marcos, where she spent more than 2 years in Dr. Joseph Koke's lab investigating the role of the FOXP2 transcription factor responsible for regulating human language development and acquisition. Lena, welcome to our team!