June 23, 2014
By: Wilson Brace
My project is one that is showing me lots of the different challenges one has to overcome in order to get an experiment off the ground. The overall idea is to study music and motor learning in a neurobiological context....
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By: Vanessa Wu
After three weeks in the lab, I feel like I've simultaneously learned a lot and yet still failed to learn much at all, if my alarmingly regular mess-ups are an of indicator of my success in that department. However, at...
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By: Jo Zhu
The research of Hartemink group is at the intersection of computer science, biology (genomics) and statistical science. While the group studies a diverse range of topics, from transcription regulation networks, to control mechanisms of Eukaryotic cell cycle, they all share...
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June 22, 2014
By: Matt Alston
My experience in the lab has been a little atypical, as I have two projects I'm working on with two different secondary mentors. One of my projects is with Dr. George McConnell, and I'm working on Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)...
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By: Hannah Kwak
So I'm currently working in Dr. Christina Williams' lab, and guess what I'm doing - making mice exercise on wheels! The Williams lab previously found that voluntary running partially restores hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive function in wildtype mice after whole-brain...
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By: Michael Ortuño
My (first) research project is to attempt to have two different types of Halobacterium salinarum with different properties mate. Working with the NRC-1 strain, I will learn a lot about how frequently mating may occur under certain conditions and also, how...
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By: Miranda Allen
My lab’s primary research interests are in pediatric disorders, especially those that occur when cilia are defective or not properly developed. The result of such defects are known as ciliopathies—genetic disorders of cellular cilia. Additionally, the lab has been working...
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By: Ayo Douglas
One of the main goals of the Aballay lab is to understand how the nervous system regulates innate immunity. Recent studies from the lab have shown that certain neurons are specifically involved in the regulation of innate immune response in...
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By: Nina Sun
Being able to study animals while they behave naturally is key in understanding the brain. Using carbon nanotube electrodes, the firing on individual neurons can be recorded, which can lead to further information about how the brain functions. These intracellular...
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By: Alcida Karz
It's taken me three weeks, but I think I'm finally ready and able to explain what it is I'm actually doing in the lab this summer. And let me just say, it's pretty awesome. Every paper I read adds...
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By: Mitch Lee
Researchers in Dr. Buchler's lab are working to better understand the regulatory mechanisms that occur naturally within the gene networks of organisms. The bulk of their research goes toward answering three basic questions. Firstly, how do these mechanisms function? Secondly,...
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By: Aitana Zermeno
In the past few years I've become very interested in vision, so I have been really enjoying my time working in Dr. Ferreira's opthalmology lab. Ophthalmology is the branch of medicine pertaining to eye diseases, and Dr. Ferreira's work focuses...
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By: Dani Smith
While I am working in the lab this summer, I will be spending the majority of my time digitizing the photographs of mantis shrimp appendages that my immediate supervisor, Dr. Phil Anderson, and I took during our trip to the...
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By: Erin Brooks
Cellular biologists are generally concerned with four major cellular processes: mitosis, apoptosis, DNA methylation, and DNA replication. The aim of my project is to design a tool to allow researchers to interrogate these four major cellular processes in a living...
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By: Levi Edouna
Sjogren's Sydrome is an autoimmune disease, a disease in which a host own immune system attacks the host, where the victim of attack is a host's salivary and lachrymal glands. Rapid deterioration of these the salivary glands and lachrymal glands...
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By: Victoria Green
This week was exhausting terrifying stimulating SCIENCE! I am working with a lovely post doc (Fabienne) in the engineering school and she is showing me how to use the Zetasizer DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) - which will be used in...
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June 18, 2014
By: Jo Zhu
This week I had the pleasure to sit down with my PI, Dr. Alexander Hartemink, to talk about his experience as a scientist. He was out of town for the past two weeks, but was extremely nice to spare his...
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By: Becky Li
So a lot of the projects in my lab are working in FLC, a gene also known as Flowering Locus C that is in a lot of plants. So what does it do, you may ask? Have you ever wondered...
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