Carlye Szarowicz received a B.S. in Biotechnology and a B.S. in Forensic Biology from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan in December of 2019. She recently joined the Pharmacology and Toxicology program at MSU through the BioMolecular Science Gateway. She currently works in the laboratory of Dr. Kathy Steece-Collier, using a CRISPR knock-in rat model of the human rs6265 BDNF variant to understand how this SNP impacts clinical response of individuals with Parkinson’s disease to the neural transplantation brain repair strategies. In her free time, she loves to watch movies, listen to music, and go kayaking.