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Successful learning does not need to be painful! Effective study techniques make all the difference. Students grow in self-confidence as they learn how to bring focus to their learning. The goal of this website is to provide emerging scholars with information about biology and strategies for retaining complex ideas.

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Dr. Kain's primary background is in cancer research, but her path was not direct. While completing her Bachelor's of Science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN she worked with a leading parasitologist. This experience peaked her interest in infectious diseases and the immune system. She continued to study the immune system during her Ph.D. in Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. Exciting new discoveries were being made about leukemia and lymphoma at the time, and her work with immune cells evolved into analysis of immune cells in this cancer process. Her postdoctoral fellowships at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) immersed her further into the cancer field. She investigated how cancer cells migrate out of primary tumors to create metastases throughout the body. Dr. Kain spent 9 years creating and characterizing biosensors to help define the cellular changes that contribute to cancer metastasis. After leaving UCSD, she became a medical journal editor, again at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. As the Reviews Editor for Disease Models and Mechanisms DMM, she wrote about exciting new discoveries and choose topics to have experts present in the journal. Dr. Kain has taught at many college campuses, as well as online, in the fields of biology, anatomy and physiology.

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