{"id":12865,"date":"2019-09-19T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/?page_id=12865"},"modified":"2022-02-07T20:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T01:47:27","slug":"biogenesis-s1-ep3-summer-morrill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/news\/biogenesis-s1-ep3-summer-morrill\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 1, Ep. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Summer Morrill<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12870 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/BioGenesis_Summer_Morrill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Person by mural smiling\" width=\"1033\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/BioGenesis_Summer_Morrill-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/BioGenesis_Summer_Morrill-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/BioGenesis_Summer_Morrill-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/BioGenesis_Summer_Morrill-332x187.jpg 332w, https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/BioGenesis_Summer_Morrill-508x286.jpg 508w, https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/BioGenesis_Summer_Morrill-420x236.jpg 420w, https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/BioGenesis_Summer_Morrill.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1033px) 100vw, 1033px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first season of BioGenesis centers on the theme of surprises. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final episode features Summer Morrill, who was determined to use her background in biology to become a genetic counselor, before arriving at MIT and becoming captivated by fundamental cellular biology. Now, she investigates cancer and other diseases from a molecular perspective, asking what happens when chromosomes mis-segregate and cells end up with an improper number of genes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/690023449&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BioGenesis <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/biogenesis\/id1478910563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/biogenesis-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen#\/ps\/Ikraku56fbrjqitzioiltriij6m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Play<\/a>,<\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2N2WsGHpydr1NbmfuIcbsN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><\/strong> and never miss an episode!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"accordion-1\" class=\"accordion no-js\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 role=\"button\" id=\"accordion-1-t1\" class=\"accordion-title js-accordion-controller\" aria-controls=\"accordion-1-c1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\tTranscript\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-1-c1\" class=\"accordion-content\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Summer Morrill<\/strong>: In order for you to know what\u2019s going wrong with a disease, you have to understand how things work in the first place. And what people probably don\u2019t know is that the biggest discoveries throughout history have been made by studying model organisms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cSomething Elated\u201d begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Raleigh McElvery<\/strong>: Welcome to episode 3 of \u201cBioGenesis,\u201d where we get to know a biologist, where they came from, and where they\u2019re going next. I\u2019m Raleigh McElvery from the MIT Department of Biology \u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Conor Gearin<\/strong>: And I\u2019m Conor Gearin from Whitehead Institute \u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cSomething Elated\u201d fades out]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: And together, we\u2019re showing you the people behind the biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: This first season has focused on surprises \u2014 personal epiphanies and research \u201cah-ha\u201d moments. This week, for our final episode, we\u2019re talking to grad student, Summer Morrill, who had a very specific idea about what it meant to be a cancer biologist before arriving at MIT. and stumbling upon her research calling.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cCamp Fermin&#8221; begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: I&#8217;m Summer Morrill. I&#8217;m a graduate student in the biology department at MIT. This is my fourth year and I&#8217;m Angelika Amon&#8217;s lab. I was originally from Oregon on the West Coast. My family moved out here when I was 10. I definitely feel like Boston is the best possible place we could have ended up, at least in terms of my interest in biology. Of course my parents had no idea when I was 10 that I would be interested in biology but I think ending up at a place that is the biotechnology and biomedical hub of the country has been really awesome for me and my growth as a scientist. From my earliest memories I dreamed of being a paleontologist which I think comes from watching Jurassic Park. But I think starting in high school I did know that I loved biology. I did know that I loved solving problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cCamp Fermin&#8221; fades out]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: She remembers having this sort of \u201ceureka\u201d moment in her high school genetics class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: Have you heard of the tasting test?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: It\u2019s a relatively straightforward experiment that involves running test to see if they have the gene that encodes for the ability to taste a particular chemical. For about 30% of people, this chemical has no flavor. But for the other 70%, it has a bitter tang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: Then they see if their tastebuds match up with the genetic test by licking a piece of paper with the chemical on it. Summer can taste the chemical \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: I do. Very much so. What I read on a gel with pieces of DNA came out to be true. So that was kind of the first time that I saw that connection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: That same high school genetics teacher even let her do research with him one summer before college, studying a type of bioluminescent bacteria that colonizes squid off the coast of Hawaii.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: I saw that you could apply what you were learning in the classroom and and make a difference \u2014 and show people show people that biology was exciting and was important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: Despite the fact that \u2014 in retrospect \u2014 she didn\u2019t yet have a handle on how her day-to-day experiments fit into the bigger-picture goals of the study, Summer was thrilled to be doing real science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cBedroll\u201d begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: Yeah. So I&#8217;m a first generation college student. No scientists in my family. And I think the real guiding factors in my life have been teachers, have been professors. I did always know that I wanted to go to college and that was really, I think, because of my parents. They knew the opportunities that they had missed out on, not having gone to college. And seeing that I was excited about school and excited about science, that was something they always encouraged me to look towards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: She applied to colleges all over the country, but Tufts University stuck out to her because of its strong science program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: Any hesitation about majoring in biology quickly vanished during freshman orientation, when it came time to sign up for classes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cBedroll\u201d fades out]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: I was one of the last slots for signing up for classes and I didn&#8217;t make it into the intro biology class. And that&#8217;s when I knew I really wanted to do biology, because that was devastating that I couldn&#8217;t get in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cBundt\u201d begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course I emailed the professor, got into the class no problem \u2014 but I think that moment of panic, when I thought I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to start my biology major, really told me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: For a while, she was on actually on track to double major in both biology and psychology, before dropping the latter to focus on research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: One of the earliest things that I thought about doing as I considered a career in biology was genetic counselling. I really was passionate about taking taking what I knew about genetics and about biology and using it to help someone navigate disease, navigate their own personal health issues. I think without knowing that side of things, that human aspect, it&#8217;s really easy to get detached in biology \u2014 to kind of look at it from this microscopic level you zoom in, you understand what&#8217;s going on in each cell, and you don&#8217;t think about how that impacts the person that it&#8217;s happening to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: She never really considered a pre-med track or med school, but she did have an acute and very personal interest in cancer biology research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cBundt\u201d fades out]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: My mom is a breast cancer survivor and cancer runs in our family, so many of my family members have had cancer. So I think having that background, having that influence in my life, was another factor in pushing me towards biology and towards genetics \u2014 and cancer biology in some cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: So, by the end of her freshman year, she knew she wanted to join a lab that focused on human health and disease \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: And there were quite a few of those at Tufts \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: But she actually ended up in a research group that was very much rooted in basic biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: And when we say \u201cbasic biology,\u201d we mean studying the most fundamental cellular processes that compose life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: One professor, Steven Fuchs, who sat me down and just started drawing out projects all over the board. From the very first time that I stepped in the lab, he gave me an independent project and said you run with this, you see where it goes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cPalms Down\u201d begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I think that openness and that invitation to kind of explore was what made science so interesting to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: In the Fuchs lab, Summer studied the tail end of a protein called RNA polymerase II, which is responsible for making proteins in the cell. She did all this in yeast, one of the simplest eukaryotic organisms. Despite being so simple and easy to manipulate, though, these single-celled critters boast many of the same cellular processes that we humans have. And that makes them incredibly useful in the lab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: She worked in that same lab for three years. And when it came time to think about life post-graduation, her professor encouraged her to apply to grad schools \u2014 an option she hadn\u2019t been seriously considering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: Yeah, I think this is another one of those moments where having teachers and professors who can mentor you through that decision was really important for me. Having someone sit you down and say, you would be good at this you can do this, and give you a picture of what it might be like to be a research scientist was immensely helpful in deciding what came next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: Still, though, she was set on pursuing translational research with clinical applications \u2014 and had a very specific idea of what that kind of career would look like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cPalms Down\u201d fades out]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: I applied almost exclusively to biomedical institutions knowing that I wanted to do something that was focused on disease, particularly cancer biology programs. And when it came time for applications to be submitted, I guess that\u2019s December, my academic advisor sat me down and said: Hey, I think you might want to look at MIT. I hadn&#8217;t had MIT. on my list at all. They do not have a biomedical track, they are a general biology program. And she said: But look at their research, look at who is there and what they&#8217;re doing, and give it a shot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cTrod Along\u201d begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: Despite doing undergrad not far from MIT, her first visit to campus took place during the winter of 2015 \u2014 or the \u201cSnowpocalypse\u201d as it\u2019s now remembered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: It snowed pretty much every Monday about two feet. And one of those Mondays was when I was interviewing at MIT. and the whole city of Boston was closed. The T was closed. The school was certainly closed. But the interview still went on and the professors still made it here. Some of them slept on their couches in order to do the interviews. And I just remember thinking, you know these professors and these other students care so much about the program that they&#8217;re willing to be here on a day like this \u2014 that means something. That means that the program cares about its people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: She was sold on MIT, and she started classes that fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cTrod Along\u201d fades out]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: And, like all the other first-years, she was required to take a graduate-level genetics class. And there, she met professor Angelika Amon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cGuinea\u201d begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: Angelika is &#8230; she is a hard woman to describe. But I have to say when I think about who she is at her core, she is a very powerful and strong woman, a great role model as a scientist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: Summer was initially drawn to Angelika\u2019s lab because Angelika is a well-known cancer biology researcher in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: She focuses on studying the way that cancer cells segregate or mis-segregate their chromosomes \u2014 meaning that they don&#8217;t go into the correct cell. And I knew that she studied that both from a translational cancer biology perspective and from a basic biology perspective.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cGuinea\u201d ends]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: The translational perspective, though, was what Summer was most interested in pursuing. Granted, at that time, she didn\u2019t know just how persuasive Angelika could be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: She has a lot of strong opinions. One of which she shares very openly and freely, which is that yeast biology is the best biology. And if it&#8217;s not true in yeast then it&#8217;s probably not true in humans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: As it turns out, Summer wasn\u2019t all that hard to convince.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: I really wasn&#8217;t. The project that I worked on an undergraduate was a yeast project. I knew the benefits of working with yeast and seeing someone who was doing such exciting research that had to do with disease and cancer biology but could be studied in yeast swayed me a hundred percent. And I think having both sides of that was very appealing to me, where you can do a very basic project, yet still have these ties to the things I was passionate about: cancer biology and so on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: Summer has been a member of Angelika\u2019s lab for several years now, and studies what happens when chromosomes mis-segregate, leaving the cell with the improper number of genes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: Right, So you have one copy of a gene from the paternal genome and one copy of a gene from the maternal genome in every cell in your body. In cancer cells and in some other diseases you have the wrong number of chromosomes and that wreaks all kinds of havoc on cellular physiology. But what that comes down to is having the wrong number of genes. Most genes, if you lose one copy, you&#8217;re fine. But there is a certain subset of genes where you lose one copy and it&#8217;s detrimental to the cell. It&#8217;s almost as bad as losing or gaining a whole chromosome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: There must be something special about those genes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cEntwined Oddity\u201d begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: What we found was the reason why you can&#8217;t lose a copy of these genes, you can&#8217;t decrease the amount of stuff that you have being produced from that gene, is because it&#8217;s highly sensitive to increases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: Summer and Angelika decided to consider things from an evolutionary perspective. Why<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0would losing a copy be so bad if you could just produce more from that one copy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: Overall you might end up with the same amount of stuff being produced. But if increasing the amount that you produce is also detrimental then you have a problem. You can&#8217;t decrease expression. You can&#8217;t increase expression. You&#8217;re kind of stuck. And so our conclusion to this project is that there are a small subset of genes, 3 to 5 percent, known as haploinsufficient genes, that are evolutionarily stuck. They will always be haploinsufficient, whether you look at them from yeast to humans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: Given how fundamental these mechanisms are, it seems strange that several years ago Summer would never have pictured herself as a basic biologist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cEntwined Oddity\u201d fades out]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: It felt like I was turning my back on studying cancer biology in some ways. But now I can see that it&#8217;s been super important for me to see how cancer biology can be explored in these really basic ways that are easy to study. Most people know about genes like BRCA1 and BRCA2. And those genes are actually haploinsufficient genes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cThrum Room\u201d begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: Outside the lab, Summer and Angelika have teamed up to spread the word about the importance of understanding basic cellular biology. They\u2019ve taught undergraduate classes together at MIT, and Summer has mentored students in their lab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Summer<\/strong>: And that certainly has been eye opening for me: understanding what it means to start someone off on their scientific career and to get them interested and passionate about what they&#8217;re doing. I mean for me it made all the difference, right? I would never have known that I was interested in biology and genetics so early on if it weren&#8217;t for those influential people in my life. I would love to be that person for someone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: Although she spends her day-to-day with yeast in the lab, she\u2019s determined to constantly remind herself about the people and the cause that drive her research. She works for Camp Casco, a camp for children cancer patients and survivors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Morrill<\/strong>: You know that the research that you do might not lead to a cure, right \u2014 there are so many different types of cancer. But it might lead to better outcomes for a few people. And that&#8217;s worth it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\u201cThrum Room\u201d fades out]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: Well that\u2019s a wrap on Season 1. Thanks for tuning in. We hope to bring you more stories about the lives of biologists and why they do what they do before too long. So stay tuned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[&#8220;Something Elated&#8221; begins]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gearin<\/strong>: Subscribe to the podcast on Soundcloud and iTunes or find us on our websites at MIT Biology and Whitehead Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>McElvery<\/strong>: Thanks for <\/span>listening.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8220;Something Elated&#8221; fades out]\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 role=\"button\" id=\"accordion-1-t2\" class=\"accordion-title js-accordion-controller\" aria-controls=\"accordion-1-c2\" aria-expanded=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\tCredits\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-1-c2\" class=\"accordion-content\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\tProduced by Raleigh McElvery and Conor Gearin.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music for this episode came from the Free Music Archive, Blue Dot Sessions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sessions.blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.sessions.blue<\/a>, and Podington Bear at <a href=\"http:\/\/soundofpicture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">soundofpicture.com<\/a>. 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