June 29, 2014
By: Hannah Kwak
My day in Professor Williams' lab varies by the mice schedule, but this week was especially busy. The project that I'm working on involves exercising mice (on wheels ~8hours/day every single day!) and memory test using a Barnes Maze (a...
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By: Feimei Liu
Our lab focuses on regenerating damaged or diseased tissue by reprogramming genetic regulation and processes. Personally I’d like to fantasize our work as synthesizing tiny protein “robots” that manipulate gene expression in the cell. Specifically, I am working on regeneration...
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By: Ayo Douglas
For the past weeks, I have been genotyping C. elegans mutants and performing P. aeruginosa killing assays. A busy day in the lab goes like this: 9:30 AM Start inoculating PA14 culture in 37°C walk-in Take out SK plates that...
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By: Aitana Zermeno
There is not one "typical day" in the lab for me, which I like. By not knowing exactly what to expect for that particular day, the lab routine does not become monotonous. Although each day is different, there are a...
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By: Nina Sun
A "typical" day in the lab for me has varied over the past four weeks, but here are the basics. Using a protein visualization software called PyMol, I look at the 3D structure of proteins. For the past few weeks,...
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By: Azeb Yirga
Everyday has its own kookiness in the Coers lab, so let me just pick a day. Oldies music greets me when I walk into work. It’s Funk Friday as everyone calls it. I laugh at some of the songs that come...
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By: Mitch Lee
Describing a "typical" day in the Buchler lab is difficult, as my agenda for any given day depends on the tasks required to advance my research project to its next step. That being said, there is a general pattern to...
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By: Jo Zhu
Four weeks is how long it took me to learn a brand new programming language (r) and use it to perform data analysis and visualization of the results. It’s longer than I expected, but, (or so I comfort myself,) this...
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By: Alcida Karz
Every day in the lab is a little different-- and by that I mean the same things happen, but in a slightly different order depending on when the hood is available. The following small talk topics will come about, most...
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By: Dani Smith
Now that I have comfortably settled into my routine at the Patek lab, my days have drastically changed since my first week in the lab. During my introduction to the lab, I spent most of my days reading papers that...
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By: Becky Li
There really is no ''typical'' day for me here at Donohue lab. As I go through my experiment from start to finish, I find that I'm doing something different everyday. To illustrate: My first day, I was taught how to...
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By: Miranda Allen
My days in the lab vary in what work I’m doing, considering some of the processes take more than a day. For example, I might be extracting plasmid DNA from a culture on day, and then digesting that DNA with...
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June 28, 2014
By: Levi Edouna
A day in the Zhuang is a continuing series of experiments that may extend a whole week or maybe a few days. I'll lock the bike up, push the elevator button for the 3rd floor, say my salutations, put on...
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By: Alexander Merriman
Hello Everyone! It is hard to believe that we are already halfway through our summer research program, still feels as if it has only just begun. This week's assignment is to describe a day in the life and what our...
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By: Erin Brooks
So what exactly is my typical day like? Well, I'd like to tell you that I arrive at the lab each morning with my entire day planned out. My imaginary self slips on her gloves and immediately gets to work...
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June 26, 2014
By: Daniel Lam
It has been nearly halfway through my Howard Hughes journey and I am still amazed every single day at what I learn about these small creatures and their developmental process. The Sherwood lab focus is on the development of the...
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June 25, 2014
By: Azeb Yirga
It has been three weeks in the lab already! In this post, I am just giving a general update on the research that I described in my first post. Two weeks ago, I included pictures of a transfection with an...
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June 23, 2014
By: Alexander Merriman
Hello everyone! Sorry this is a day late, the disappointing loss to Portugal made me completely forget to update my blog! This week's post is to describe my research project this summer. As previously mentioned, I began my tenure in the Poss lab...
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