This week in the lab was my last so I was a little pressed for time when it came to running new reactions. Monday started with four more small vial reactions of our Aryl Boronic acid and Aryl Iodide scopes. I weighed out the solid...
Since being here I've realized how much more confident I've become being on my own. It's been a learning experience to try to do things independently, but I feel like I'm already growing a lot. I feel like I've already become more confident dealing with...
Hello, I have officially finished my 6-week neuroscience internship under Cassandra White in the Jin Lab at Scripps Research! By the time you read this, I will be on my way back through the hot desert to Colorado. This has been such an incredible experience...
Hello, my name is Katie Pumayalli, and I just finished the last week of my six-week internship at the Ye Lab at Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. I can’t believe my internship is already over. I've had the pleasure of working with my amazing...
Hello again, everyone!! This week has been eventful and exciting! On Thursday, we had a thrilling encounter with a moose at our site—such a cool experience! Unfortunately, we’ve been noticing a lack of Linum lewisii flowers in bloom. So we spent some time scouting out new locations...
I was supposed to have three more days interning at University of Houston; however, with Hurricane Beryl storming its way through Houston and neighboring areas, I was only able to spend my last day, June 10th, working in the lab. I tried one final experiment to...
This week I was able to work even more or the categorization of outflow gas of M82. I accomplished this through several steps. The first part of the week I spent making graphs of two or more variables taken from fits files my mentor has...
This was my fifth week interning for the Rodham Institute in public health at Georgetown University. I was able to visit two universities on my college list this week, as well as catch a train up to New York this weekend. [caption id="attachment_23033" align="alignleft" width="225"] Bridge...
Monday: I continued to help prepare the cages for the cocaine rats and was lucky enough to see the data collected so far on the rats. I was surprised to find a significant difference in the frequency of self-administration between male and female rats, with...
Hi everyone, I just completed my third week here in Santa Barbara and it has been amazing! On Monday, Sam and I spent the day working on ViQi and continued to identify clams. This day we found other interesting creatures like this funny fish giving us...