Week 6

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...

Due Sunday, 15 July, 5 pm