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1. What prompted you to have this photo session? I wanted to get professional pictures to remember this accomplishment.
2. What do you plan to do with your digital photos? I will print some of them for my family and probably post a few on instagram.
3. How did you choose your location for your session? I chose the iconic locations at UT for classic UT grad pictures, but I also wanted to capture my personal experience on campus in my research lab. As a graduate student, I spend most of my time in the research lab and don’t walk around campus much, so I wanted to capture that in my graduate pictures as well. 
4. What advice would you give to others planning a similar Senior photo session?
   I especially love the pictures from my lab. I would advise other PhDs to make it personal and have some ideas/props ready to display your project. It helps to have example pictures. 
5. Anything else you’d like to add about working with Stephanie Friedman Photography?It was great working with you Stephanie! You are very easy to talk to and make the photoshoot fun!
6. Can you share some details about what’s happening in the lab photos? My dissertation thesis focused on developing an electrospun wrap to improve bone healing. All of the items I was playing with were parts of how I fabricated the wraps. The big orange box is an electrospinning box where we apply electric charge to our materials to spin it into a mat that is made of micro-scale fibers, kind of like fabric. The syringe with multiple needles is a custom made electrospinning syringe to spin multiple jets at the same time. The gross tissue I was holding was small intestine. We use small intestine as a material in our wrap to help guide the body to make more blood vessels that will help bone regeneration and healing. The big hood that I was working in with a pipette is a biosafety cabinet (BSC). We use it to work with cells and bacteria in a sterile environment (to protect us and the cells). The big tank that sprayed up a bunch of white smoke was a liquid nitrogen tank. We use this to freeze samples very quickly to preserve their structure. The liquid nitrogen is -196C, so when it hits room temperature air, it vaporizes instantaneously. Once the container gets cold enough, a liquid will start to collect that we can submerge our samples in to freeze them. 

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