July 14, 2019
By: Kacia Anderson
In Drosophila Melanogaster (fruit flies), wingless(wg) a Wnt growth factor responsible for cell to cell communication operates in two parts, a signal transduction and movement (of this signal) to other neighboring cells. What remains unclear to researchers who study wingless...
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By: Nithin Ragunathan
This week, I've prepared an early draft of the abstract for my poster: The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a cortical brain region implicated in a variety of functions, including emotional self-regulation and the reward pathway. This project utilizes optogenetic...
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By: Caroline Gamard
Inhibition of HipA to Reduce Multidrug Tolerance in E. coli The HipBA operon is a bacterial toxin-antitoxin module that plays a crucial role in multidrug tolerance in E. coli. HipA, the toxin, is a kinase that functions by phosphorylating translation...
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July 8, 2019
By: Kathleen Beben
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...
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By: Michael Lee
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...
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By: Brennan Simon
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...
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July 7, 2019
By: Claire Yin
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...
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By: Eleanor Seo
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...
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By: Alissa Kong
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...
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By: Catherine Yao
Everything’s routine now. The moment I open the door to the Bryan Research Building, a quick rush of AC floods over me. I click the “^” button, step in, click the “4” button, step out. I round the corner, smile...
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By: Nithin Ragunathan
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,...
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By: Shannon Houser
"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...
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By: Evelyn Sturrock
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...
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By: Kacia Anderson
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...
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By: Simone Wall
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,...
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By: John Modarres
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...
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By: Rachel Estrella
A day in the life of me in the lab is like a 90s sitcom, where you can predict what's going to happen but each episode brings it's own laughs. Each day in the lab is essentially a step in...
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By: Sophia Jeffery
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...
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