Lindsey Wilson

2020 Astronaut Scholar, 2020 Goldwater Scholar

Hometown

Boonville, IN

Major

Genetics

College

College of Science

 

Lindsey Wilson has been named a Goldwater Scholar and received the Astronaut Scholarship sponsored by Marc and Sharon Hagle in recognition of her outstanding undergraduate research. She was drawn to study genetics after an adopted family member was diagnosed with a rare genetic insensitivity to pain. For over two years, she has conducted research on phage folding in the lab of Nicholas Noinaj. I She was also a grant-funded intern at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, one of the National Institutes of Health.  Her research and leadership in the area of genetic mutation and disorders continues to impress her professors and colleagues.

 

Lindsey is widely involved around campus outside of the lab as well. She serves as an undergraduate mentor for the Purdue Women in Science organization. She was principal flautist/piccolo player for the Purdue Concert Band for a year and is a team leader for the Purdue Latin and Ballroom Dance club and participates in dance competitions.

 

“My future research lies at the leading edge of genomic discovery, where there are few standard experimental procedures,” Wilson says. “As I investigate genetic disorders with unique properties, I will need to venture applying different techniques to the field and formulate new procedures to successfully uncover answers. Essentially, I must “choreograph” an experimental sequence that turns my questions into discovery.”