July 24, 2014
By: Alexander Merriman
Hello everyone, It is hard to believe that eight weeks has gone by so quickly. This program flew by, with the exception of this past week. I never knew how much work went into making a scientific poster, but in...
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By: Alexander Merriman
Hello everyone, For the week 7 assignment, we were asked to discuss the summer seminar series and reflect on one of the faculty talks we heard. This is a little late (sorry!), so I would like to reflect upon the...
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July 13, 2014
By: Alexander Merriman
Hello everyone! This week's assignment is to discuss the joys and woes of scientific research and how our projects are coming along. In the beginning it was rather difficult to get the Whole-mount in situ protocol working, forcing us to...
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July 9, 2014
By: Alexander Merriman
Hello Everyone! We are officially more than half way through the Howard Hughes Research Fellowship. Time if flying by and results are starting to add up in the lab. I will have a finished poster soon enough; however, this past...
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June 28, 2014
By: Alexander Merriman
Hello Everyone! It is hard to believe that we are already halfway through our summer research program, still feels as if it has only just begun. This week's assignment is to describe a day in the life and what our...
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June 23, 2014
By: Alexander Merriman
Hello everyone! Sorry this is a day late, the disappointing loss to Portugal made me completely forget to update my blog! This week's post is to describe my research project this summer. As previously mentioned, I began my tenure in the Poss lab...
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June 15, 2014
By: Alexander Merriman
For this week's blog assignment, I interviewed my principal investigator, Dr. Ken Poss, to find out more about his beginnings as a scientist and to gain any advice he may have as I begin my scientific career. Dr. Poss began...
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June 8, 2014
By: Alexander Merriman
I was extremely grateful when I found out I was accepted to the Howard Hughes Research Fellowship. I have known for quite some time that I wanted to spend my summer in a lab, which made this program especially appealing...
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