Day Fire Podcast

Karah Nazor is a biologist, science teacher, aquarist (she raises 3 species of jellyfish in her lab), She loves to swim in oceans, lakes and rivers, Karah is also the Race Director of Swim the Suck, and she loves insanely spicy food and IPAs. Karah teaches scientific research, molecular biology, environmental science, general biology, and marine biology at The McCallie. In her lab, her team of research students embarks on a range of projects from the effects of ocean acidification on jellyfish, to spawning ctenophores for growing primary cell cultures in vitro, to optimizing hatching and methods for rearing freshwater fairy shrimp. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from James Madison University in 1999. She swam sprint freestyle and backstroke events for the JMU Dukes. She earned a Ph.D. in Gerontology from the University of Kentucky in 2005, followed by a postdoctoral research at the University of California San Francisco for 4 years where she studied prion disease. Karah is from Chattanooga