Brief Biographical Sketch:

Maryia Lu was born in Baltimore, MD, and has lived in 4+ states while growing up. Currently, she considers her hometown as Atlanta, GA, and was totally an orch dork throughout high school. As a Course VII, Biology, major at MIT, she will be an undergraduate research assistant this summer in the Orr-Weaver Lab at the Whitehead Institute investigating developmental regulation of DNA replication in flies. Also during this summer, she performed at the Tokyo University of the Arts in MIT's Dance Theater Ensemble's "Live Action Anime 2009: Madness at Mokuba." She is thinking about doing a minor in East Asian Studies and has taken classes like Introduction to Japanese Culture, Japanese Popular Culture, etc. She is Co-Entertainment Chair and a member of the McCormick Judicial Committee at her dorm. Occasionally, she stops by and helps out with Quiz Bowl tournaments around here. She is always interested in talking about Japanese culture or random things happening in the field of biology.

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