This week was fun as it was my first experience working in the wet lab. Before I had been strictly doing computational work but this week I was more oriented towards physical lab work. Most of my work this week involved preparing slides for imaging. I...
Hello everyone, my name is Andrew Kistler, and I am spending my summer in Golden Colorado at Colorado School of Mines. For the next seven weeks, I will be working in the M3 Robotics lab with Dr. Andrew Petruska as well as some graduate and...
This was my second week interning in Washington DC at the Rodham institute working in public health. I found out this week that I will be interning with a senator from DC in about two weeks, which will be an amazing experience. [caption id="attachment_22374" align="alignleft" width="225"]...
Hello, my name is Katie Pumayalli and I just finished the second week of my six-week internship at the Ye Lab at Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. I have been working with my amazing mentors Cailynn Wang and Zhengyuan (Ben) Pang. I started my...
Welcome back for the second week of my internship at the Dorris Neuroscience Center! I got all of my safety protocols and training over on Friday last week so I was able to do some hands-on work this week! I started on Monday by helping...
Hello, my name is Ian Snapp, and I will be interning at the Scripps Dorris Neuroscience Center (DNC) in La Jolla, California, for, as the name suggests, neuroscience. This internship will span from June 17th to July 26th (six weeks), and my work schedule will...
This week was very enjoyable. I had Monday off and so I was able to start the week with a day of climbing. I went up Little Cottonwood Canyon and climbed a beautiful 2 pitch granite crack. Then, when Tuesday rolled around, I finally figured out...
I'm Reeve Johnson, and I'm spending my summer traveling for lacrosse while also working on a remote computer science internship. Specifically, I am aiming to use the latest AI tools to create a start-to-finish closed process that can predict stock movements. This process will have the...
I am working at the George Lab at UC San Diego, a Psychiatry lab focused on drug addiction headed by Dr. Olivier George. I am working under my mentor, Selene Bonnet-Zahedi, a post-grad who will have her PhD within the next 12 months and holds...
Hello! This was my third week researching at University of Houston under mentorship of Professor Baldelli. Last week, I was experimenting with different drops of Silane to see the trend of contact angles as I increased the drop count. I ended up finishing all but...
Hello and welcome back for week 2 in Tybee. This week I came in on Sunday and took Friday off. I spent more time in sea camp with a group of 9 to 11 year olds. I also spent time shadowing our educators in the...
For my second week at the Neretti Lab, I refined my coding skills even more. I was introduced to a software coding package called Cellpose. Cellpose is a deep learning, AI software that is very useful for microscopy analysis on images. Cellpose is a technology...
Hello everyone, my name is Andrew Kistler, and I am spending my summer in Golden Colorado at Colorado School of Mines. For the next seven weeks, I will be working in the M3 Robotics lab with Dr. Andrew Petruska as well as some graduate and...
I started working in the Engle Lab at scripps research, under Keary Engle and my mentor Madison Wagner. The aim of the lab to create solutions that will catalyise different chemicals easiest and most efficiently. My mentor's project is focusing on creating tetra-aryl-alkyne groups that...
This week I was fortunate enough to attend the SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) conference in Yokohama, Japan. This was such a cool experience learning about the instrumentation used for all sorts of astronomy and astrophysics and learning about Japan as well. The first day...