Nathalie Valenzuela: Neural Basis of Social Behavior, Week 2
Its my second week here and my projects are going really well. The experiment hasn’t been able to take place yet because the monkey is still in training. This monkey is named Ham and he’s a teenager and at the moment he’s going through a rebellious stage and really doesn’t want to listen. All of […]
Emmanuel Ledesma: Chemistry, Week Six
This week in the lab we completed our task of ranking the 12 ligands in order from the lowest IC50 to the highest. We were able to accomplish this by using three analysis methods we chose. The methods included: free energy, secondary structure, and hydrogen bond analysis. After analyzing our data from the free energy […]
Jess Pack: Psychology and Neuroscience, Week Four
My week in the Change Lab was really awesome! I started my week off by shadowing another undergraduate student that I had not worked with before. We started the day with plating a 24 hour for the OASIS study. To begin this process whole blood is mixed with FBS/RPMI (FBS stands for fetal bovine serum) […]
Alexa Yanosky: Plastic Surgery St. Croix Week 4
Day 21: My last Sunday in St. Croix was one to remember, the day started out with a pancake breakfast with Stefán and Abbie in our apartment. After cleaning up, we got in the truck and headed out west on the island for a new beach experience, Rainbow Beach, in Fredrickson. Once we hit the […]
Abigail Link: St. Croix Plastic Surgery Last Week
Day twenty one we spent the last Sunday of our trip at Rainbow beach. The beach was about 20 minutes away so after that drive we were excited to jump in the waves. By courtesy of Dr. Moorman, Stephan, Alexa, and I all went jet skiing. I have never done this before, Alexa had, and […]
Abbey Heide Week One-Field Biology
I am Abbey Heide and I am in Gothic, Colorado, working with ten other students at the Rocky Mountain Biological Labs, learning about field biology and ecology. This week we were introduced to several different deviations from ecology. We started with zen ecology, doing more observational work in the field, taking field notes without actually […]