I had a really magnificent third week here at Tybee Island. There is so much to learn and do! This week I only worked 4 days, and get this, it wasn't the Fourth I had off. Each day I worked, I was in the Husbandry...
This week we finished running our molecular dynamics simulations, and with those, we correlated the IC50s of different ligands to various properties of said ligand. For example, we tested the number of hydrogen bonds the ligand has to the protein in order to see if that correlates to...
Week three of the internship has been good. Work in the lab has been a continuation of what we have already been doing. All groups of rats we were running are still running and no other groups were started. Though two of the alcohol rats...
This week I continued work on the same animal behavior research I had been doing. I did not get a chance to head to the molecular biology department to help with that side of things, but I was fine with this because it is a...
This week we were learning how to use codes and know their functions. My mentor was explaining how to use them properly. These codes can be used to form a wide variety of functions, like you can use them to control laboratory tools and much more. During...
The second week of my internship was just as exciting as my first. This week we primarily focused on analyses that we have to run in Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. Molecular Dynamics simulations are used to see how structures change over time compared to the...
The halfway point in my internship comes with a twinge of sadness, as it means my time here is winding down, but also with immense excitement as there is still so much to learn. Week three brought with it a myriad of different activities and...
My name is Finn Doherty and I am a student at Ridgway Secondary School. I am interning at the California State University Shark Lab in Long Beach. I arrived to Long Beach on the 28th of June and it has been an amazing experience so...
This week at the R.E.E.F. was quite interesting. Monday and Tuesday were pretty normal days with programs coming in and the undergraduates teaching them about kelp forests. We also did husbandry (housework) that needs to be done every day for the health of the animals. Wednesday we...
[caption id="attachment_9277" align="alignright" width="300"] Branches of the Mississippi (from the plane)[/caption] Today is my first week here at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Jazz is being played, the humidity is real, and I've been bustling around getting acquainted with the Science and Technology, Education,...