July 6, 2018
By: Luke Sang
So far through this summer, I have discovered that the stereotypic perception of the routines of a researcher is mostly false. Each day there is usually a new challenge, concept, or method to try, creating an experience very much different...
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July 5, 2018
By: Alina Xiao
I normally start my day at the lab habituating mice to a head-fixation device connected to a treadmill. Mice that are considered habituated will groom and run (and sometimes vocalize a little bit spontaneously) instead of displaying freezing behavior. Before...
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July 3, 2018
By: Claire Engstrom
A normal day in the lab usually begins with checking on my 293T cell lines to see if they are confluent enough to passage to a new plate. If the cells are 80-90% confluent, then I will thaw my media...
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July 1, 2018
By: Dang Nguyen
Although a life of research often leads to an extremely narrow field of expertise, reading and learning about new research and knowledge from other, sometimes completely unrelated, fields can be both exciting and intriguing. One such example is Ayana's project...
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By: Michael Williams
For this past week, I have been listening to my peers present chalk talks on theirs works, providing me with insight into other areas of biological research. Of these projects, Sweta Kafle's phenotypic analysis of transgenerational seed stability in Arabidopsis thaliana...
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By: Lillian Needam
Over the past week, myself and other members of the BSURF program had to give chalk talks; 8-minute talks about our project with nothing but a whiteboard and a marker. Even though I was nervous about giving my talk, I...
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By: Felix Steinruecke
This past week, everyone had the opportunity to present their project to the other BSURFers through a chalk talk. I found Julia's talk particularly interesting, as her work on Oxidative Stress relates to what I am working on in the...
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By: Simeon Holmes
I enjoyed being able to here about the various research projects going on by my fellow B-Surfers. It was interesting hearing the different problems/questions posed and seeing the ways and which these research questions were being answered. I found...
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By: Luke Sang
My week was highlighted by great chalk talks from every member of the BSURF program. I definitely learned a lot about various topics and projects. Further, these chalk talks spark my interest in new subjects and has gotten me talking...
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By: Claire Engstrom
This week, I heard about the amazing research that my fellow BSURFers are conducting while listening to their riveting chalk talks. I learned about neurobiology, plant biology and all the different topics in between. Though all of the presentations were...
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By: Michelle Lee
As interesting as it was to hear about everyone's projects and learn a thing or two from each one, I think we're all pretty glad that's over with. For now, anyway. Hopefully, the posters will be easier since we'll have...
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By: Christine Adjangba
Thank you my fellow BSURFers for sharing your projects this past week during the Chalk Talks. It was interesting to see the wide range of research going on this summer and learn about the different topics and techniques used in...
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By: Melissa White
This week, everyone presented their chalk talks about their projects. It was fun and interesting to see what everyone was working on! I liked that a lot of the same areas of interest and methods (e.g. epigenetics, use of gRNA,...
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By: Sweta Kafle
Can we really call the presentations last week a chalk talk? I would say it’s more like a Expo® manifesto. All (bad) jokes aside, I think the talks given were amazing. Everyone explained their projects extremely well, and I...
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By: Caitlin Lamb
This week, I had the opportunity to listen to everyone give a chalk talk about their project. It was nice to understand details about their project, such as Alzheimer's, and DMD instead of thinking, okay he works in an x,y,z...
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By: Tamanna Srivastava
I would like to start this post off by saying that all of the chalk talks given this past week were absolutely amazing! They all dived into complex topics like genetics and neurobiology in a simple way that made understanding...
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June 30, 2018
By: Simeon Holmes
During the course of this summer I have had the pleasure to work under a man by the name of Ci Fu in the Heitman lab. Having him as a mentor has been a challenging yet gratifying experience. I have...
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By: Julia Marshall
The entirety of this past week’s BSURF meetings were dedicated to giving Chalk Talks, giving everyone in BSURF an opportunity to learn about and engage with each other’s research. My eyes were opened to the range of topics being investigated....
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