# Waubonsee Community College, STEM undergraduate, Fall 2025 - 2026

**URL:** <https://help.c-moor.org/t/waubonsee-community-college-stem-undergraduate-fall-2025-2026/893>\
**Category:** Look at This!\
**Tags:** RNA-seq, miniCURE, Fall2025, Spring2026, wcc\
**Created:** [June 16, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://help.c-moor.org/t/waubonsee-community-college-stem-undergraduate-fall-2025-2026/893 "2026-06-16T20:06:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@Joanna](https://help.c-moor.org/u/Joanna)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://help.c-moor.org/t/waubonsee-community-college-stem-undergraduate-fall-2025-2026/893/1 "2026-06-16T20:06:29Z")

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**What was your favorite part about doing the research project and why?** My favorite part of this project was learning how to use AnVIL cloud it was interactive and easy to follow. It was a great learning experience to see how raw RNA-seq data turns into actual expression levels, which let us map out how genes behave in different parts of the Drosophila midgut

**What is one specific skill in biology and/or research that you learned through this project? Give an example how you used this in your project.** A major skill I picked up was navigating public databases like FlyBase and the Human Protein Atlas. I used them to track down specific genes, like the ones involved in neuroactive ligand-receptor interactions, to figure out how their expression changes across the anterior, middle, and posterior sections of the fly midgut.