July 10, 2016
By: Margo Orlen
For my on-going project, as discussed in my previous blog entry, I use the BRET assay to measure protein-protein intracellular interactions specifically by investigating the role of arrestin plays in internalization and signaling of the D2 dopamine receptor depending on...
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By: Moreen Njoroge
My typical day begins at 8:15am on Mondays and Fridays with a debriefing session with my mentor. We usually go over the order of business for the day which includes the tasks that should be accomplished that day. Most of...
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By: Demi Zhu
I always start my day with coffee. After waking up in the morning and before arriving to lab, I drink a cup of coffee to prepare myself for the day. Once in lab, I go to my bench and create...
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By: Murotiwamambo Mudziviri
When l thought about working as a researcher, l always thought of a somewhat fixed daily routine. Well, this has not been the case in my lab. Every day begins differently, although some days are similar. My usual day begins...
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By: Ajile Owens
My daily life in the Haynes lab has drastically morphed during my first month there. While I have shifted far away from the constant safety training videos and pipetting practices that filled my entire day the first week and a...
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By: Raj Borra
There is no typical day in lab for me just yet. The only thing that remains constant is that I'm in lab from about 10 am to 4:45 pm, with a lunch break sometime in between. Besides that, I could...
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By: Griffin Haas
The typical day in the Pickup lab begins at around 10:00 AM. I usually check in with Dr. Pickup and our lab tech Nicole to see how they're doing and make sure I know what to plan to work on...
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By: Ricardo Matias
My day in the lab begins at around 10 am. As I mentioned in my week one blog post, my day typically revolves around trial and error. Although I am getting much better at using MATLAB, I continue to refer...
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By: Susan Zheng
No day is the same working in the Poss Lab. Every day consists of new experiments to carry out, new things to learn, and new questions to ask. The first two weeks of lab largely consisted of shadowing my secondary...
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By: Emre Kiziltug
I don’t have a typical day but I do have a typical week in Kuo Lab. I conduct a thorough mutagenesis experiment where I complete multiple different steps and ultimately mutate the desired sites of the gene. I start with...
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By: Elizabeth Snyder-Mounts
A day for me in the lab differs from day to day. It all depends on where I am in a protocol or how the cells look that day. Some days I am changing media on cells or completing assays....
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By: Hannah Ahrendt
My project uses computational biology methods, so basically I spend most of my time on my laptop while I am in lab. My time is divided between reading papers, coding, troubleshooting and googling how to use certain softwares. The papers...
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By: Melissa Horowitz
My daily activities in lab really depend on what point of the experiment we’re at. Since my project is such a giant experiment, it takes up most of my time during the day, though I do help work on another...
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By: Yilin Yang
Instead of a daily schedule, I have more of a three-day schedule - well, if I am lucky enough and nothing goes wrong, which doesn’t normally happen. As I mentioned in my blog last week, I...
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By: Ricardo Matias
The Nicolelis Lab is well known for researching brain-machine interfaces (BMI) in an effort to develop brain controlled prosthetic limbs to be used by patients suffering from quadriplegia. Although the lab has multiple ongoing projects, my research falls within the...
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By: Megan Jiao
(I've probably told the "I kill worms for my job!" joke far too many times, and I'm just beating a dead horse now. Won't do it again, sorry!) Depending on what day of the week it is, I might be...
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By: Courtney Hill
With two trials of seed plates running at the same time at various levels of progress (this means 182 petri dishes of 25 seeds each), and three trials left to be made, a day in my lab is usually nice...
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July 9, 2016
By: Casey Kuka
When your research project depends on delicate little organisms known as "cells," day-to-day life in the lab is always a bit different. Regardless, my days usually begin the same way: I come into lab in the morning, vaguely sticky from my bike...
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