Kiera Iversen, Ting Wu Lab HMS, Week 6
Hello all, and welcome to my final blog! Thank you to all of those who have been following along as I have gone through this incredible experience! A huge thanks of course to the Ting Wu genetics lab; to Fei Zhao and Laura Breimann for being such wonderful mentors, scientists, and people in general, and […]
Azari Guerrero, Burton Lab at Scripps Research, Week 6
Welcome back! I’m Azari, and I just completed my final week at Scripps Research. Just a refresher, I worked with Nate Beutler, a post-doctoral immunologist who, through antibody discovery and therapeutic design, is working to understand why an effective vaccine for malaria hasn’t been developed yet. I also worked with Ben Nemoz, a post-doc virologist […]
Jacob Sharpe, Wu Lab HMS, Week 6
Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who tuned in and read my blogs each week. This will be my last blog, as my internship at the Wu Lab has come to an end. This week in the lab, I spent most of my time preparing for a presentation I had on Thursday. We were […]
Shiloh Warthen – Immunology + Microbiology at Briney Lab, TSRI – Week 6
Hello again! I’m Shiloh and I can finally say that this summer I interned in the Briney Lab at Scripps Research Institute: intern in the past tense because my time in San Diego has come to an end. I’m so so glad that it happened at all though, I’ve learned so much and made some […]
Ally Metzger – Ecology at RMBL – Week 2
Hello to everyone tuning in for the first time, and welcome back to those who’ve been following along! Just as a quick refresher, my internship is taking place at RMBL, a biological research lab located in the old mining town of Gothic, just outside of Crested Butte, CO. I am working in the Brosi Lab […]
Reign Icasiano, George Lab UCSD, Week 6
It still hasn’t hit me that this was the last week I had in the George Lab, and it’s definitely been hard to say goodbye. As I’m writing my blog after my internship has finished, I just feel thankful for everything I went through, and everyone I went through it with. The learning I did […]
Maiya Wagner – Organic Chemistry at TSRI, Engle Lab – Week Six
Hi everyone, to recap 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 fourth-year graduate student […]
Adam Szigeti University of Utah Internship Week #2
It has now been two weeks that I’ve been here in Utah doing this internship and it has been a great experience filled with so much joy and learning I have truly enjoyed all of it! On Monday we went into the lab again, this time our goal was to try and get to motion […]
Eli Ellison, APR Internship, Week #4
Hello everyone, I’ve just wrapped up my fourth week with APR and continue to learn a ton. This week was especially exciting—I got to be part of some really cool projects. To start the week, we figured out how to enable an Audi to build boost during launch control. This allowed the car to launch […]
Destiny Lawley USCB Marine Science Institute Week 2
Hello everybody and welcome back to the blog and week 2 of the internship. Earlier this week I learned a lot about what one of the lab members does with clams. After collecting them he’ll dissect them, separating the gonads from the rest of the clam. He’ll then dry both parts separately in a low […]
Valentina Zago Carolei-UMC Norwood-Week 2
HII!! This week was such an amazing experience and full of learning opportunities! I started off by learning about breast cancer, colon cancer, and cervical cancer—how they’re different from each other, the types of screenings used to detect them, and the treatments available. One of the highlights of my week was getting to observe PA […]
Noah Landefeld U Houston Week 5
This has been a bittersweet week; it was my fifth and final week at the University of Houston. It was extremely busy, as I was finishing all of the work that I had been working on. I created a few more films, but mostly focused on collecting data. After testing the four-point probe last week, […]