Happy Monday guys!

It’s our last week! Where has the time gone!Today was my last day working on my research. I was running my transfected cells through the flow cytometer! I had some cell death (we kind of knew that it would happen), but I should have some much needed results on my poster!

I hope everyone has a great last week!

Happy Learning!

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!

Last week was my lab heavy week, I was on campus almost everyday to split my cells as well as running flow cytometry . Three 12 well plates, each was incubating for a different amount of time, but so far the results are looking good! This week will be my data analysis week!

Wheres the time gone guys? We have our symposium next Friday!

Hope everyone has a great week and happy learning!

I had so much fun seeing everyone’s labs last week! Everyone’s doing so many different things and working in so many different types of labs. Shout out to Mellie for keeping her selfie game and picture game strong, she was kind enough to send me some pictures from my tour!

On a more scientific note, my mentor was making a virus today! I got to observe the protocol as well as the extra safety precautions that are required in the virus room. Depending on how far along her research is she will make a virus. The virus she used is the lenti virus, that she modified. The lenti virus is part of the HIV family and is used to facilitate integration of transfer plasmid sequences into host cells. They use this method more so, because it takes less time and is equally effective as other methods. ( I don’t think I’ll get to this level in my research, but I was very thrilled to see the process!)

Hope everyone has a great week and a Happy 4th of July! We’re half way done guys! Times going by soooo quickly! Happy Learning!

Day 1 my mentor had me attempt cell culture, any mistake can ruin your cells. Needless to say I was a shaky mess! 10 days later, I can do it solo with my lab book closed!

Cell culture is also known as splitting cells, it is the process in which cells are grown under controlled conditions, usually outside their natural environment. After the cells of interest have been isolated  they can later be maintained under carefully controlled conditions.

My mentor wants to develop genetic circuits in cell plasmids to increase protein production for medical use. The cells she has me working on will take on the genetic circuit she’s designing and fingers crossed they work!

Hope everyone has a great week, it’s already week 3 guys!

Hope everyone has been having a great 1st week doing research!

I’m learning something new everyday from my mentor, I’m stunned by how patient and insightful she is.

This week we did a new lab practice everyday! Today we set our gel electrophoresis and set the current, waited 75 minutes to see our results and 2 out of 3 worked so we set another mid day waited 80 minutes on this one, unfortunately again 2 out of 3. We brain stormed the possible errors and set another to try tomorrow morning.

If at first you don’t succeed try and try again! See you guys tomorrow!