Miroslava Garza
Research Overview
This student is Miroslava Garza but goes by Miritos. She is now in her 3 rd year of optometry school in Boston. She obtained travel awards to go to SACNAS and her research was supported by the C-STEM under the NSF-LSMAP grant. Miritos did excellent work representing the lab in several local, state, and national conferences. She is also the main author of a paper that was published in a top journal called PLoS Neglected Tropical diseases (cover page shown below). Our work was featured in USA Today and on local ABC/NBC TV affiliates Channels 5 and 23, respectively. A picture of both of us working in the lab has been used as an advertisement for the C-STEM and programs such as HHMI at UTRGV.