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...
This past week has been a total whirlwind. Everyone has been settling in, finding people that they connect with, and starting larger projects. In the morning program, multiple students moved up to the Unity game engine, which I have some proficiency with. It has been...
This is my first week interning at the Rodham Institute affiliated with Georgetown University working in public health. Over the course of six weeks I will be doing various activities mostly related to the betterment of children’s health in the underserved communities of DC. [caption id="attachment_22134"...
Hello Everyone! My name is Siena and this summer I am interning through Scripps Research in La Jolla, California for neuroscience. Specifically, I am interning at the Dorris Neuroscience Center under Cassandra White in the Jin Lab. While I am here I am staying and...
Hello, my name is Katherine(Katie) Pumayalli and I will spend six weeks interning at the Ye Lab at Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. I will be working with my amazing mentors Cailynn Wang and Zhengyuan (Ben) Pang. I started my mentorship on Monday,...
My third week at Outlaw Equine consisted of working the night shifts, which I had never experienced at a job before. Since I was on the night shift for five days and was joined by only one other technician instead of the usual six during...
The second week of my internship at the MIX Center in Mesa, AZ was a blast, but also exhausting. The week started somewhat slow, with introductions on Monday, and time for the kids to get used to us, and vice versa. We can't let them...
I had tons of fun during the second week of my internship at the University of Utah. I continued work on some python code modeling different lattice structures as well as creating models of porous media and simulating the outcome of injecting supercritical CO2 into...
I started my internship at the Center for Biology of Aging at Brown University, in Professor Nicola Neretti's lab, this week. This lab studies everything about cellular senescence, or when a cell stops proliferating/dividing. Obviously there can be age related diseases with an accumulation of...