My name is Luticha andre Doucette, and I am a visiting scientist at the University of Rochester in the Warren Lab.

And what we do here in the Warren Lab is we study genomics, which is studying the DNA and RNA of living creatures.

I am a bioinformatics.

We use computer science in order to interpret biology from that perspective.

So we have a lot of data that gets generated in the lab and I help to interpret that data with computers.

What we do here is study a model organism called the Soni of the Troponins, and this is a tiny little wasp that stains the pupa of a type of fly, and then that sting injects venom and the eggs into the pupa.

We want to know, what is it that I'm doing?

How is it acting upon the host?

And can we then use that to create drugs to help other people?

What I love about science is that there are so many questions to answer.

It's kind of like having a infinite number of boxes.

You don't know what's inside of them, but you try your best to open each one and to figure out what's inside.

Every day there's a new challenge.

Every day I'm learning something new.

Every day I'm learning something new about myself.

And that personal growth has been great as well.

So just being able to explore and to know that I can solve a problem and I can make a difference in people's lives just by doing things.

So there are a lot of myths about people with disabilities, and I think the biggest one is that we aren't capable.

Even the word disabled handicap really means the inability to function.

But just because your legs don't work, your hands don't work.

Or even for someone like myself who may have had a brain injury at one time, does it mean that you are incapable of functioning?

It means you have to adapt.

And at the end of the day, people with disabilities are people.

We're human and we come in a variety of flavors just like anyone else.

And so therefore, we are not bound by our disability.

We are capable of achieving what we want to achieve, but we need a little bit of help along the way.

Treat us like you would anyone else.

And that goes a long way to creating that idea of community.

We shouldn't be outside.

We belong inside the hole that because.