Week 5

Hello everyone! For this week’s blog entry I’ll bring you through a day in my life working in the Bilbo/ Eroglu lab. My day begins with an 8am wake-up and a half hour of frantic pre-work preparations. Somehow during this...

On most mornings, I’m lulled into a new day at lab by the hum of a Krueger machine spouting out warm, ripe coffee. As decisions run through my head and I reach for the hazelnut creamer cups, a flurry of...

What's up readers? This week I'll be sharing a typical day's routine from my time in the lab. My days start at 9 in the morning when I usually get to lab. I like to bike to work in the...

Building a gene regulatory network, I think, is sort of like solving a jigsaw puzzle. Little by little, discovering which pieces go where–through logic, through the process of elimination, through experimentation. My weeks in the McClay lab have usually looked...

Every morning, I’ll walk into the LSRC and I’ll see stairs—three long, tall flights of stairs I have to walk up in order to get to lab. After making my way to the third floor, I’ll round the corner into...

A typical day for me in the Gong Lab consists of me helping my mentor, Emily, with her project on how visual manipulations in virtual reality affect the firing pattern of place cells in mice. This project has been ongoing...

Bonjour tout le monde, this week I’m here to detail what a typical day in the Yin lab looks like for me. Each day, my schedule heavily depends on the availability of the operant conditioning boxes in the lab. Recently,...

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." ~Confucious I truly love the work that I do and the people I work with. I am so lucky that my days are...

Each morning, I start my day by becoming an astronaut. Or at least that's what I look like after donning the extensive PPE required to enter Bryan Research's basement mouse colony. I spend about 3 minutes donning a blue full...

So this week's blog post is centered around my day to day experiences in the lab! I've had the title for this blog post since the day 1 meeting when Dr. Grunwald suggest we use interesting, creative titles for our...

What I do in the lab depends on the day, but all of my activities revolve around glass slides. Some days, I have to do my least favorite task: polymerizing the glass slides. The procedure isn’t particularly difficult or unpleasant,...

A day in the lab is what you make of it. The quicker you are, the sooner you are finished with work. In my lab, it seems as though there is a hundred different studies being done at once. I...

At this stage of my project, I am staining brain sections with Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) and then imaging them. The FISH procedure to stain the mRNA of interest requires one overnight incubation in order for the probes to...

It’s always a great day when the long-awaited results of my western blot come back clear and easy to interpret. My project this summer involves many, many western blots. Western blot is an important technique used to detect proteins in...

My favorite part of life in the lab comes at the start of every day, when I get to flip to a fresh page in my lab notebook. I’ve always loved recording things, so you can imagine my excitement when...