July 27, 2018
By: Christine Adjangba
Well… Great is an understatement. My time this summer has been enlightening and better than I could have imagined. At the start of the program, I wasn't sure if I wanted to pursue a career in research. I also didn't...
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July 22, 2018
By: Christine Adjangba
In my experience, it’s not often you meet someone who works with poop regularly. So when I learned that Dr. Lawrence David studied the microbiome using human stool samples, I was immediately intrigued. But it wasn’t Dr. David’s research that...
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July 15, 2018
By: Christine Adjangba
To start off this post, I just want to say how surprised I was yesterday when I thought about how there are only 2 weeks left until BSURF ends. On Friday I performed my last RIA for the summer, and...
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July 8, 2018
By: Christine Adjangba
As I mentioned in my past post about my project, I am determining the thyroid concentration in fecal samples of a wild population of male baboons using T3 radioimmunoassay (RIA). First, here’s a bit more information about how RIAs work:...
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July 1, 2018
By: Christine Adjangba
Thank you my fellow BSURFers for sharing your projects this past week during the Chalk Talks. It was interesting to see the wide range of research going on this summer and learn about the different topics and techniques used in...
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June 24, 2018
By: Christine Adjangba
This past week I had the pleasure of talking to my PI, Dr. Susan Alberts. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Dr. Alberts was originally a philosophy major. Her interest in biology began during the second semester of her sophomore...
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June 17, 2018
By: Christine Adjangba
Studying the wild population of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in the Amboseli National Park of southern Kenya, the Alberts Lab focuses on how animals respond behaviorally to their social environment. As a matrilocal species, female baboons stay within the group...
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June 10, 2018
By: Christine Adjangba
For years I envisioned myself sitting at a bench, working towards unearthing new discoveries that’ll change humanity’s understanding of the natural world. With BSURF, I now have the chance to know what the reality of working in a research lab...
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