As an undergraduate researcher, your world expands. Justin Hachey, while an undergraduate researcher in the Rodriquez lab, contributed to a paper that was recently published. The author list includes Justin, GW postdoc and two Chemistry Nobel Laureates and Dr. Rodriquez
They determined the small Ultra-Red Fluorescent Protein (smURFP) crystal structure and showed it fluoresces longer than tested small-molecule dyes.
Read the paper in Nature Communications: Structural and photophysical characterization of the small ultra-red fluorescent protein