Event time:
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Bass Center for Molecular and Structural Biology, Room 305
266 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Professor Gonzalez fell in love with science as a teenager in Miami, after a particularly great high school teacher introduced him to chemistry. “She taught chemistry through the eyes of a biologist,” Gonzalez says. “It was really impactful. It’s informed all the science I’ve done since then.”
He caught the research bug at Florida International University and put off his graduation so he could spend another year working in a lab. His mentor there encouraged him to go to graduate school, and he got his Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from UC Berkeley in 2000.