Written by Alexis Kirkendall, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant Me running a DNA extraction in lab. Hello everyone! My name is Alexis Kirkendall and I am a junior biology major at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. I have a fascination with microbes and the huge impacts such small things can make. read more Crypto is a real problem. Cryptocurrency? Nope, Cryptosporidium.