My name is Rose Kirk-Landry and this was my final week interning in environmental engineering at the Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Monday - Last week I was finally able to get one of our temperature sensor to...
Hello everyone! My name is Melaina Yender and this is my fifth week of studying neuroscience and click chemistry at the Ye Lab at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. As a recap, I have been conducting research with my mentors on the...
Hi everyone, I am Natalie Lopez Ramirez and this is week 5 of studying metabolism at the Ye Lab at Scripps. [caption id="attachment_20495" align="alignleft" width="264"] Glucose strip containers!![/caption] I started Monday with the weekly lab meeting. This meeting was a little different because there was a postdoc...
I am Aubrielle Weaver, spending my summer in San Diego, California, at San Diego State University (SDSU). For six weeks I have been studying microbiology. My mentor is Gregory Burkeen, who is a Ph.D. student at SDSU. This is week 4 of my internship. I...
Hello everyone! My name is Giada Amundson and I am doing organic chemistry at Scripps. This is my 5th week in the lab with 2 weeks left. I can't believe that it is almost over! Monday, July 10 This morning, I took the mass of the Wittig...
Hi everyone! It has been another great week in Boulder! The week began with an analysis of DNA collections from a previous experiment. A machine called a Quibit counted the amount of DNA in one tube, (in nanograms), and we used this information and a bit...
I’m Jai Sanchez and I’m spending my summer in Santa Barbara, California studying marine and coastal life at UCSB/the REEF (Research Experience & Education Facility). The REEF is part of the Marine Science Institute’s (MSI) education and outreach program. The REEF is dedicated to teaching...
[caption id="attachment_20615" align="alignleft" width="150"] broken slide from the first tube furnace[/caption] This week was my last week at the University of Houston. While I feel like my research was cut rather short, I learned a great amount in such a short time span, and if given...
Hi all! This is week five of my internship at the Frazier Rehab Facility in Louisville Kentucky. I am nearing the end of my internship, with only one week left, and if I'm being completely honest, I am a little sad. I have met so...
This was my last week in San Diego. I was only there until Tuesday morning, but let me just say what a wonderful experience! I will be forever grateful. Because the 4th of July was on Tuesday I didn't have to go to work on Monday...
Hello everyone! I had another great week learning with the Neuromorphs and even got to enjoy some 4th of July festivities with them. This week, I continued to participate in the morning lectures and on top of that, I observed and helped set up some...
[caption id="attachment_20470" align="alignright" width="218"] A proper start to the 4th of July: a hike with my mom and dog![/caption] And all of a sudden, I have only one week left! Hello and welcome (back) everyone! My name is Brooke Duncan and I am doing a software...
My name is Rose Kirk-Landry and I am interning in environmental engineering at the Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Monday - We spent the morning with Lei (EGI's data scientist) going over some basics for coding with python....
Hello everyone! I’m Melaina Yender and this is my fourth week researching neuroscience and click chemistry at the Ye Lab at Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. I have been conducting research with my mentors on the binding of hallucinogenic drugs in the brain...