{"id":59,"date":"2025-08-12T18:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baliga.systemsbiology.net\/see-interns\/hs2025\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:20:30","slug":"elizabeth-gabbay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baliga.systemsbiology.net\/see-interns\/hs2025\/elizabeth-gabbay\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Gabbay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-121\" src=\"https:\/\/baliga.systemsbiology.net\/see-interns\/hs2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/PD5A0267-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baliga.systemsbiology.net\/see-interns\/hs2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/PD5A0267-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/baliga.systemsbiology.net\/see-interns\/hs2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/PD5A0267-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/baliga.systemsbiology.net\/see-interns\/hs2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/PD5A0267-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baliga.systemsbiology.net\/see-interns\/hs2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/PD5A0267-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/baliga.systemsbiology.net\/see-interns\/hs2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/PD5A0267-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/baliga.systemsbiology.net\/see-interns\/hs2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/PD5A0267-1-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabeth is a rising senior at Northwest Yeshiva High School set to graduate in 2026. Her scientific interests range from the chaotic<\/span>\u00a0properties of intracellular proteins, to mycologically centered ecology, to atmospheric physics and weather analysis. Regarding all of these areas, she is particularly drawn by the application of mathematical concepts to biological or physical problems. While she hasn\u2019t resolved which field to pursue professionally, she hopes to apply her curiosity to areas with potential to benefit human experience, whether it be through our own bodies, the environments we manipulate, or the atmosphere we rely on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her free time, Elizabeth captains her school Mycology Club which waxes poetic about the fungi all around us and programs for her school\u2019s engineering team. She also plays classical violin and loves to find new recordings of old favorite pieces or old recordings of pieces she just discovered. She assists with youth baking classes for her local religious community and likes to help take care of her school\u2019s chickens. When she isn\u2019t doing anything else, she might be reading classics, snuggling with her cats, or watching Star Trek, Doctor Who, or old sit-coms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Together with her partner Alice Cottrell-Steen and under the guidance of Dr. Jacob Valenzuela and Dr. Chris Deutsch, Elizabeth is researching the microbial differentiation and metabolic processes of a specific enriched community of microbes sourced from a biogeochemically significant field site. To simulate natural conditions, they constructed Drip Flow Reactors, a reactor system containing a column of sediment and with vertical nutrient\/moisture flux. The experiment aims to quantify the community speciation between those microbes who prefer living attached to the sediment and those who prefer living planktonically, as well as those who subside within vertical transects with graduated levels of oxygen within the reactor. Elizabeth and Alice take daily measurements of the optical density, pH, and Gas Chromatography information and will take endpoint metagenomic measurements of the composition of the attached communities using 16S rRNA sequencing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth is a rising senior at Northwest Yeshiva High School set to graduate in 2026. Her scientific interests range from the chaotic\u00a0properties of intracellular proteins, to mycologically centered ecology, to atmospheric physics and weather analysis. Regarding all of these areas, she is particularly drawn by the application of mathematical concepts to biological or physical problems. 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