Wow. It's over! I've completed my Pinhead internship! It flew by so quickly. In the lab, we didn't really do any new protocols or anything. This week, we used the micro RNA that had been isolated last week to find out if micro RNA 335 was affected...
Things are getting pretty routine, by now. I've gotten comfortable with the protocols/procedures in the lab. For example, during my first week, Rob gave me a procedure for DNA isolation to read over, with the intention that it would give me an idea of what...
Oh my goodness, I am over halfway done with my internship! Where did time go, what is happening? It's going by so quickly. This week in the lab, we started off with the Qubit (pronounced cubit). The Qubit is a little machine that tells you how...
I'm settling in quite well and I'm having a lot of fun. Click here for a video! ---> Me Pipetting Last week, we left off with NanoDropping the RNA samples. We ended up with a large quantity of RNA without many contaminants, which is very good! We did...
I have been learning so much. Rob thinks that higher expression of a gene called SFRP5 is linked with increased fat in his genetically identical mice. Because of this, he has 6 mice that he is using to figure out the role of SFRP5 in fat...
I'm Sabine Lindler, and my internship is in Scarborough, Maine, at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute (MMCRI). I'm working under Dr. Robert Koza, who studies the role of epigenetics in obesity. Upon starting my internship, I had no idea what epigenetics meant, so I will...