Carol Wilusz is a Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology and Director of the Cell & Molecular Biology Graduate Program at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. In the spring of 2025, she was hosted by the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. As a Fulbright Scholar, Carol conducted research on the regulation of gene expression in stem cells by RNA-binding proteins. Outside the lab, she found time for a series of unexpected adventures: paddling a dragon boat on the Vltava River in Prague, riding a paternoster lift in Zlín, and taking the Baltic Express from Vienna to Gdańsk. I struggled to decide where to spend my sabbatical and settled on Prague on a whim – it’s in the center of Europe, and at the time I was applying, I had just visited my son there while he was studying the criminal justice system for a summer. I was also attracted by the impressive range of research going on at IMG, the idea of experiencing a complet...
Jaké je to být Fulbrighterem. What it is like to be a Fulbrighter.