July 15, 2018
By: Tamanna Srivastava
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...
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July 14, 2018
By: Caitlin Lamb
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,...
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July 13, 2018
By: Ayana Paul
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...
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By: Ayana Paul
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...
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July 8, 2018
By: Lillian Needam
So far, my summer has been exciting. I've learned so many new things and have gotten he opportunity to talk/listen to so many amazing people. I cannot wait to see how everything turns out over these last few weeks. Daily...
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By: Simeon Holmes
I have loved every moment of of my research project this summer. Although its been challenging adjusting to new terminology, vocabulary, and other hands on task, I could not ask for a better opportunity. My days in the lab have...
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By: Melissa White
Like I have mentioned in my previous blog posts, my experiment is based around seeing what genes effect sexual behavior in the brains of flies. Depending on what gene (fruitless, doublesex 1 or 2, or ChAT) and what epigenetic marker...
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By: Dang Nguyen
With a full day of benchwork planned, I try and wake up at 5 am, but the nauseating breach of sunlight through the blinds often send me back under the covers for another 5 minutes. Or maybe 50. Given the...
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By: Sweta Kafle
Although every day in the lab is slightly different, there are some constants that exist. I usually get to lab and do germination checks for about two hours in the morning. I have my petri dishes where we put down...
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By: Michael Williams
When I first walk into lab, I check my email to see if there are any updates from my mentor on my project. Then I prepare PCR to test the primers for Shank1 and Dlg4, as I am finding that...
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By: Felix Steinruecke
I usually get to the lab quite early, in order to get a head start on my experiments before going to the usual BSURF meeting. Many of the experiments we run, such as Western Blots and RT-PCRs, require a lot...
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By: Julia Marshall
Every day I spend in the lab is different. So it’s hard to choose a prototype of my day. The protocol for my lab work usually runs on a weekly basis and each day is an incremental step of completing...
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By: Adaora Nwosu
In my lab, not every day is the same. Depending on what is going on with our project, some days may be busy days, and some days may be "waiting" days, when we are waiting for our experiments to run....
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By: Michelle Lee
For me in the Wray lab, everyday is pretty close to the same (so long as there are sea urchins in stock). As soon as I get to the lab, I check on the sea urchins I injected the day...
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By: Christine Adjangba
As I mentioned in my past post about my project, I am determining the thyroid concentration in fecal samples of a wild population of male baboons using T3 radioimmunoassay (RIA). First, here’s a bit more information about how RIAs work:...
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By: Caitlin Lamb
For me, there are things that I do on a daily basis, but there are also things that I do that depend on how a previous day's work turned out. Most days, I arrive at the lab I check in...
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By: Tamanna Srivastava
Through the past couple of weeks my routine in lab has kind of been all over the place. Depending on the goal for the day, I alternate between the third, fourth, and ultimately the fifth floor (where my lab is...
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July 6, 2018
By: Ayana Paul
I really enjoyed all of the chalk talks from last week. To be frank I felt a little proud of everyone because from what I could understand everyone had fairly complicated subjects and projects. To see that everyone could effectively...
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