Hello again! I have spent my last week on Coconut island doing a variety of projects to help out other visiting researchers. During the beginning of the week, Miranda and I helped out a woman named Julie Zill who is doing her PhD research at...
Monday: After spending another beautiful weekend in Santa Cruz skateboarding, surfing, and exploring the city I was ready to get back to work. I had a meeting with Jeff(My supervisor) about my next project. The last few weeks I have been developing and testing a segment...
Week four of my internship was my vacation week. Dr. Baker went to Alaska to drop off Taco--the cat we were boarding while the owners moved. Dr. Favolaro was dropping his son off at college. Rhonda the manager told me on Monday that I should...
Hello, hello, and good day fellow super nerds. This week was my second week working at the Marine Science Research Building in Santa Barbara, California. I could go off on this blog about how I had to suck up urchin feces with a large straw...
The fifth week of my internship was a very busy one. The clinic wasn't as busy as usual, but there was a lot of work to be done regarding the research I am doing. On Monday, I was able to observe a bilateral ovariectomy of...
This has been my 5thweek in Louisville! I started the week with attending a multitude of different therapy sessions with another intern. We saw a patient get stimulation on their legs while we played with a volleyball, catapults, and nerf guns in order to work...
Well, it’s been four weeks since I started my internship here at the University of Utah. Time really flies by. This week, Sean and I did a lot of work on the communication aspect in the network. We created temporary cardboard compartments for the sensors...
Hello everyone, I just finished up my second week studying computational biology at CMU. This week was an exceptional one and I'm really excited to tell you all about the awesome things I got to do. This week was mostly split between time in the microbiology...
I hereby dub this week one of our most productive weeks! Caroline and I finished the work assigned to us by Andrew. When he came back from Guatemala, we discussed what exactly I should do for Maxwell. He figured out that the CuE3 TVAC mounting...
Welcome back! This week was a really busy week in the lab. We helped with the GWAS experiments in the mornings as per usual and then we started on to other things. Another lab member is starting a project on alcohol self-administration so I helped...
Week 3 everyone, This week has been captivating and full of new experiences! To start off the week, we began dissections on a cohort of rats that have completed their scientific mission and have now passed onto a wonderful rat heaven. What's fascinating about the rat is that...
The main focus for this week was on the sensor network. We did a lot of work on the communication between nodes, and tested their ability to daisy chain between each other to reach the central computer. [caption id="attachment_12220" align="alignnone" width="300"] A sensor node stored in...
Hello! This was my third week at the Bernier Lab in Seattle. This week at work was one of the busiest weeks I have had since I started. My big tasks were working on data entry and different presentations. The different presentations were based on...
Hi everybody! Week three has been great, our mentor, Andrew, is back and I’ve started working on testing the gyroscopes with the Arduino. I also learned how to solder when I soldered the pins onto the Adafruit breakout board. We took a tour of Bio-Serve,...
This week was great! I continued working with PyQt, making small graphical applications, from Monday until Friday. PyQt, as said in my last blog, is a massive graphics library that makes creating visual app elements far easier. This week I made apps with custom signals...
