Azari Guerrero, Burton Lab at Scripps Research, Week 1
Hello everyone!! I’m Azari and I’m interning at the Burton Lab at Scripps Research in San Diego this summer. I work with Nathan Beutler, a post-doctorate immunologist who, through antibody discovery and therapeutic design, is working to understand why an effective vaccine for malaria hasn’t been developed yet. The lab itself isolates and characterizes antibodies […]
Reign Icasiano, George Lab UCSD, Week 1
Hello! My name is Reign Icasiano and I got the exciting opportunity to be a Pintern this summer! I am working in the George Lab at UCSD studying neuroscience, specifically dealing with addiction and how it affects the brain. This blog will document my full internship, start to finish, tuning into the full experience with […]
Maiya Wagner – Organic Chemistry at Scripps Research, Engle Lab – Week 1
Hi everyone, my name is Maiya Wagner, and I feel so blessed to be given the opportunity to work in San Diego interning at the Scripps Research Institute. I am working at the Engle lab, which works with catalysis, and is run by Keary Engle. and with Madison Wagner, a third-year graduate student and PhD […]
Lana Kenworthy – Chemical Biology at DNC, Scripps, Week 1
Hi everyone! My first week in San Diego has been amazing! I am lucky enough to be interning at the Ye Lab within the Dorris Neuroscience Center at the Scripps Research Center. I am interning under the guidance of my incredible mentor Cailynn Wang and her research on CATCH (or clearing-assisted tissue click chemistry). My […]
Benjamin Carpenter, OAIRE Week 1
Hi everyone! I’m Benjamin Carpenter, and this summer I am interning with OSU (Oklahoma State University) in their aerospace engineering department, or Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE). I am here with another Pintern, Rider. This first week was pretty slow, but it was slow for important reasons. This week focused on instruction, as well as the […]
Kiera Iversen, Ting Wu Lab HMS, Week 1
Hi everyone, I’m Kiera! I was lucky enough to be placed with Ting Wu Genetics Lab at Harvard Medical School for my internship this summer. It has been an amazing first week, if I do say so myself. I am working under the mentorship of Fei Zhao and Laura Briemann, two post-doctoral fellows in the […]
CJ Horning LASP Internship Week 1
I am CJ Horning, and I am interning at LASP in CU Boulder this summer. I am interning with my friend Hugh, who is also from Telluride High School. This week, we were focused on training for all the equipment we would use. However, we got some hands-on time with a vacuum chamber and specialized […]
Hugh Hatcher, LASP, Week 1
Hey everyone! My name is Hugh Hatcher and I was lucky enough to get my Pinternship at LASP(Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) in Boulder, Colorado. I am working with Dmitry Vorobiev as well as a number of other undergraduate and graduate students here. My first week at LASP was very exciting. The first two […]
‘Grateful to be part of this day’
Pinhead Institute hosts a kids’ education event on the Valley Floor
‘Bubble-ology’ along the River Trail
Annual Pinhead-Library collaboration on Monday was a special edition of Story Walk