Science Leader Shuang Song '12

High School: Freeport High School, Maine
Connecticut College Major: Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Research Papers
"On the origin of fluorescence in bacteriophytochrome infrared fluorescent proteins." A. A. Samma, C. K. Johnson, S. Song, S. Alvarez, M. Zimmer J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114, 15362-15369.

Research Posters
"Photophysics and Dihedral Freedom of the Chromophore in Red Fluorescent Proteins" presented at the American Chemical Society Northeast Regional Meeting, Hartford, Conn., October, 2009.

Conferences Attended
American Chemical Society Northeast Regional Meeting, Hartford, Conn., October, 2009

Internships
Summer 2011 - Dr. Charles Lee, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Summer 2010 - (one month), research on the origin of fluorescence in bacteriophytochrome infrared fluorescent proteins in Professor Zimmer's computational chemistry lab
Summer 2010 (two months) - Project A.H.E.A.D., Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, New York, NY
Summer 2009 - research on photophysics and dihedral freedom of the chromophore in red fluorescent proteins in Professor Zimmer's computational chemistry lab

Academic Year Research
Three semesters in Professor Zimmer's computational chemistry lab
One year in Professor Eastman's genetics lab  

Study Away 
Fall 2010 - SIT Community Health and Social Policies, South Africa. This study abroad experience included a month-long independent study project, "Exploring the Collaboration of HIV and TB Services in a Rural Hospital in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa," in which she volunteered in the hospital and interviewed the doctors.
 
Other Accomplishments
Foreign Language Fellow, Connecticut College
Mitchell Scholar, named for Senator George J. Mitchell from the State of Maine
CRC Press Award in General Chemistry
American Chemistry Society Polyed Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry
First rating (piano) soloist, Jazz Festival of Maine Music Educators Association, 2008