Pintern Blogs

Welcome back,  This week was slower than most and consisted of a lot of reading and learning. I read two papers one from Sierra Simpson a post-grad in our lab and one for a journal club we do every Monday. Sierra’s paper is about her...

Wow! This was my last week in Louisville, and once again it was amazing. Almost every day this week we performed a variety of experiments, SATcos, and other tests. I was once again able to help with the safety and feasibility study, measuring the blood...

This week was super good! I worked on my final project design document and a little SWIG/Qt in my extra time. I was taught the value of a good design, making the coding far easier, and given some examples where the design phase can took...

This week in the lab has been a lot of reading for me. I have been working on reading various papers on Neuropsychopharmacology, which is the field of study the George lab is categorized under. Neuropsychopharmacology is essentially the study of how drugs affect the...

Good afternoon everybody! Things really started to heat up in the Miller lab this week. I'm talking literally and figuratively. John, another intern also working for Katrina, blew the fuse on our freeze dryer while trying to extract pigment from his algae samples. Oil spewed...

Hello everyone I just had a wonderful third week at my computational biology internship at CMU. I'm really excited to tell you guys about everything that I learned, but first there's a point of particular interest. The my group under Josh Kangas may have discovered a...

I just finished the first week of my internship, during which I am staying in Los Angeles and working in a virtual reality studio studying computer science in filmmaking. The first day was mostly paperwork and getting to know the people in the office. They even...

This week was a week of realizations. I realized that people tend to make things more complicated then what they are. By this I mean that my design for the Maxwell TVAC plate was way more complicated then it should've been. Upon this realization I...

This week, we did a complete successful test of the sensor network, using temperature sensors in place of the CO2 sensors. With three nodes, data was gathered, sent through the main node to a computer, which printed the data to a CSV file which was...

Welcome back to week four of my blog! This week, by far, has been the most productive of them all. [caption id="attachment_12431" align="alignright" width="420"] Ben Loh (red shirt) and the high school team gazing at our beautiful machine.[/caption] Up to this point, we have been practicing effective...

This week was my 4th week at the Bernier Lab at the Center on Development and Disability at the University of Washington. This week there was only two CONNECT-FX visits, so it was a pretty slow week in terms of seeing study participants. When the...