I had an amazing last week in Boulder both in and out of the lab! To start off the week I got to observe DNA extraction for the first time which was really cool! The Change Lab is currently waiting on more of their typical...
My second and last week in Gothic was spent conducting experiments individually or in pairs. Our brainstorming period happened to be a day hike up a nearby mountain, stopping occasionally to look at and learn about research going on in the area. I then had...
Hello all! My name is Ben Lafferty and I am one of the many Pinterns this year from Telluride, Colorado. This summer I got the opportunity to learn what it is like to be a software developer at Rover.com. Rover is a website that provides...
This was my fifth week here in Long Beach and it was definitely one of my favorite. On Monday, we took the boat out to find the receivers that hadn’t surfaced when it was supposed to. An engineer and two interns from the company Blue...
Welcome to week five of my Pinhead Internship blog! This week flew by, and I also anticipate the remaining two weeks of my time here in Los Angeles as well. All five days at work this week were spent on set on the main stage...
This week was our last week of doing real research on our protein systems. Which was both exciting and sad that it is all coming to an end. During this week I spent most of my time calculating free energy wells for each system of...
It’s my second to last week here at the National WWII Museum and I’ve just had the most interesting discussion with Mr. Owen Glendening, Executive Director of Education & Access. Mr. Glendening has worked for over 30 years in Museum Studies. Now, truly not to...
For my Pinternship, I have been working in the communications branch of the Natural Resource Conservation Service. The NRCS is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture that provides subsidy funding to ranchers and farmers in California to help them modify their practices...
This week, we spent most of the time working out the kinks and errors that were possible reasons why HYDRA, the program that we are working on, wasn’t giving us readouts. We fixed all of the errors as you saw last week, but when we...
This week, we been transferring and preparing more samples of graphene and annealing them to test them and follow with our comparisons of their results. Another thing we did is install a humidity sensor in the conductivity set up that we did. The process of...
Week four was a lot of troubleshooting. Firstly, the 31st, we decided to head to the lab. Waiting for everything to set up, I observed another intern (who was much older than I) doing some other radio testing. Essentially, his computer was sending a modulation called...
Its my second week here and my projects are going really well. The experiment hasn’t been able to take place yet because the monkey is still in training. This monkey is named Ham and he’s a teenager and at the moment he’s going through a...
This week in the lab we completed our task of ranking the 12 ligands in order from the lowest IC50 to the highest. We were able to accomplish this by using three analysis methods we chose. The methods included: free energy, secondary structure, and hydrogen...
My week in the Change Lab was really awesome! I started my week off by shadowing another undergraduate student that I had not worked with before. We started the day with plating a 24 hour for the OASIS study. To begin this process whole blood...
Day 21: My last Sunday in St. Croix was one to remember, the day started out with a pancake breakfast with Stefán and Abbie in our apartment. After cleaning up, we got in the truck and headed out west on the island for a new...
