Week 4

Every morning this summer I take the bus and walk to French Family Science Center and report to my lab, Hargrove lab. I usually walk into the office before the lab itself, where I drop off my backpack in my...

Life in the lab varies from day to day, but most consist of at least one of the following: observing or doing surgery, slicing / imaging / recording from visual cortex (V1), or figuring out Matlab.  Performing surgeries on mice...

While a day in the Sherwood lab looks a little different every day, there is always one constant to start (and end) my day: collections! The minute we get to the lab in the BioSci sub-basement, we bring out our...

Although I have a project plan, every day I go into the lab I have different tasks and responsibilities.  I’ve learned lots of practical skills, like the full process of genotyping, from collecting the tissue to imaging the gels, as...

As in most labs, each day at the Silva Lab holds something different. There are routine tasks that must get done, like prepping cells, making media, and autoclaving flasks. There are frustrating tasks that must be dealt with, like troubleshooting...

An average day in Rausher Labs is full of bags of soil, bright blooming flowers, and soggy wet floors. I start my days in our office space. I am always greeted by my mentor Jonathan Colen around 10:00 is every...

If there is one person in B-SURF that's happy about living on East Campus again, it's me. Unlike many of my colleagues, who undergo a daily commute to West Campus and back, I take a 15-minute walk through downtown Durham...

Most of my days begin in White Lecture Hall on East Campus. Here, I meet with my cohort to work through journal articles, talk about different aspects of research life, or hear from distinguished Duke faculty about their research and...

During our interview, Dr. McClay said keeping up with the perpetually-advancing frontier of science was easy because "The game is fun." Now, after three weeks, it's time for me to recount my own opening moves in the game of scientific...

Every day in the lab consists of different experiments to conduct, exciting protocols to learn about, and new lessons take home. In the mornings, I work with my mentor Carl, a PhD student in Dr. Wrays lab, to assist him...

Alright - a day in the life at the Mooney Lab. First off, I’d like to say that there isn’t really one “typical” day or set routine in the lab. The day pretty much depends on the experiments you want...