Between all the excitement at the university and at home I find myself late writing my blog. But better late than never so here I go. The group of grad students that I've spent the last four weeks with are moving on to other parts...
Other Stuff So far, and especially my last post, have been mostly science based. Which is great– I am here in San Diego for a science internship. But that’s not everything I have been doing. San Diego is a beach town, this is my summer, and...
The past week in the lab Stephanie and I continued to dissect her invertebrates, dry and then grind her samples. Our samples each week consist of 10 styela, 10 mussels and 8 scallops (the scallops are harder to come by so we had to adjust...
Hi everyone! I'm Danielle Nguyen and I am doing a Pinhead internship at the University of California Santa Barbara this summer. I arrived in Santa Barbara on Sunday, June 29 around noon. The night before, I went to sleep at 2 AM...
I have been learning so much. Rob thinks that higher expression of a gene called SFRP5 is linked with increased fat in his genetically identical mice. Because of this, he has 6 mice that he is using to figure out the role of SFRP5 in fat...
WEEK 1: Tybee Island has been both informative and full of excitement. My first week consisted of squid dissections, beach walks, sifting and seining classes, helping out the summer camps and learning hands on. At least once a day the summer camp heads out to the...
Week Three This last span has been filled with results. First, I received the DNA sequences for the samples. I organized the results, and ran them against a library of known bacteria 16s rRNA genomes. For a brief summary of this process, the samples are sent...
As I finish my third week here at AuburnVeterinary Teaching School, I'm beginning to understand two things about Auburn. One is that the humidity is overwhelming. The second realization is that Auburn is one of the best vet schools in the country and I am...
During the third week I continued to help Stephanie with her project, all of the containers of carbon-13 enriched phytoplankton have been fed to the organisms so now it is time to start testing the impact of the feeding. We collected samples of the organisms...
I'm Sabine Lindler, and my internship is in Scarborough, Maine, at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute (MMCRI). I'm working under Dr. Robert Koza, who studies the role of epigenetics in obesity. Upon starting my internship, I had no idea what epigenetics meant, so I will...
Week Two Ok, so what haven’t I done in these last two weeks? I could start by talking about all the biking both to and from the San Diego State campus (4.2 miles each way), or the running I have been doing, the swimming I have...
The second week of the internship things have gone much more smoothly. Since we found housing that is close to campus I have been able to ride my bike to the lab everyday. At the lab I've worked more with the college intern...
This week at AuburnVeterinary Teaching Hospital I got to help with a lot more hands on activities and procedures. I've helped castrate a boar pig and a young bull. I also was lucky enough to watch several surgeries including one in which...
I arrived in Santa Barbara mid-day on Monday and my parents drove me up to the house that I was going to be staying in. It was high up on the hills outside of the city and when we got there was saw the most...
My first week of my internship was a busy one! I'm attending Auburn University large animal veterinary teaching hospital and it's a blast! I'm luckily working with great people who are overly educated in their fields of study. I'm excited for the weeks to come! ...