Karissa Milbury is a graduate student in the Genome Science & Technology program at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC. She received her BSc from Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. Her current research involves using genetic analyses to develop new prostate cancer therapies. Beyond the lab, she tries her hand at science communication through guest articles, her blog, and photography at Vancouver's Science World. She spends the rest of her time devising a grad school survival plan by perfecting the combination of stubbornness and earl grey tea.
Changing the cancer landscape
You are standing on top of a large, grassy hill. As it slopes down, the ground is uneven, forming pockets and smaller hilltops. More grassy slopes roll out around you to meet the horizon on all sides – a landscape of peaks and valleys, large and small, wildly irregular.