Congratulations to MacKenzie Bolen on her recent collaboration with Dr. EA Thompson’s lab at Mayo Clinic. “We completed single-cell spatial imaging of the directed transcript and proteome from human Parkinson’s, ,inflammatory bowel disease, and neurologically healthy brain and colon. I was trained by Dr. EA Thompson’s lab. Our overall goal is to investigate cell type neighborhoods within the brain and colon at the single-cell and subcellular level of PD and IBD patients to disambiguate the possible relationship between gut inflammation and Parkinson’s disease. I am mentored by Dr. Malu Tansey.” -MacKenzie Bolen.