BSURF 2018

In Drosophila melanogaster, the genes Fruitless (Fru) and Doublesex  (Dsx) control sex specific sexual behavior and experience-dependent sexual behavior, respectively. Additionally, mutants of the male form of Fruitless (FruM) and flies in isolation show a lapse in sexual behavior, indicating that experience has effects...

Mice are such wonderful creatures to work with. Those that I habituate every day   have become so nice to me. But there are also those who vocalize enough to make you think yes it's gonna work and then stop...

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...

Cryptococcus deneoformans is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen that mainly infects immunocompromised patients, including AIDs patients and patients with organ transplants. It infects approximately 280 thousand people and contributes to about 180 thousand deaths per year. Few strategies are available in...

Progress on my project has unfortunately been quite slow, due mostly to unavoidable issues that cropped up earlier into the process. In particular, the change from using FL green sea urchins to NC green sea urchins. Given that the project...

Throughout the world millions of people are affected by Plasmodium Falciparum, a parasite responsible for the transmission of the deadliest form of malaria.  Several molecules in the parasite work to keep it alive during transmission and infection; PI3P is one...

A song made famous by Frank Sinatra, That's Life, talks about some important facts/lessons about life that also connect to science. The song talks says life is all about the highs and lows about life.  Science, as I found out,...

Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungus that is most commonly responsible for the disease meningoencephalitis, an infection of the central nervous system, and is potentially fatal in immunocompromised individuals such as those with AIDS. In addition, research related to C. neoformans...

My activities have slowed down in the recent couple of days because the lab is starting its mice experiments. All that is required is to grow my cultures out and prepare them into an innoculum for the mice. After that...