The Working Environment

The work environment at Duke Cancer Center Snyderman building is fairly relaxed. Going in, I imagined that it would be very formal and everyone would constantly be wearing lab coats and goggles while focusing on their own experiments how it is typically depicted in movies. But when I got here it was significantly more informal than I thought. Everyone is super helpful and I am not scared to ask any of them questions. Everyone I have spoken to has been informative and kind while I learn. The work environment is also very collaborative, everyone talks to the other researchers about their projects and just things going on at first. The dress code is fairly casual. It is a lab so closed toed shoes are required and most people wear long pants, but 99% of the people wear casual jeans or capris and a casual t shirt.

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Consortium Poster Dr. Somarelli and I with my poster creating a gel my cells!!! qPCR test Cells in Cellvo plate Splitting cells in Tissue Culture cells in the regular plate cells colonizing Western Blot in the process of running Loading a Western Blot

My work for the Summer of 2020

2020 has been a challenging year. The COVID-19 pandemic has made many things unable to happen, or be executed in new and strange ways. Fortunately for me, Dr. Jason Somarelli found a way to provide me and five other students with a way to learn about cancer. We were instructed to choose a web application in order to either learn about cancer vulnerabilities or to answer a biological question. I decided that I wanted to identify compounds to treat Double Hit Lymphoma (DHL) using the DepMap portal. My grandfather was diagnosed with Double Hit Lymphoma when I was in 7th grade, while he survived, he still suffers from the side effects of experimental treatment plans. DHL is caused by mutations in the MYC and or BCL2/BCL6. It is usually associated with late-stage cancer progression and poor prognosis. But because DHL is a rare subgroup of Lymphoma, there is not yet a standard way for diagnosing and treating it. In my research, I learned about the MYC gene and how it is indi...

About Me

Hello, My name is Elyse Schechter. I go to Apex High School (roll cougs) where I am a part of the Academy of Information Technology (AOIT) program. In this program, I learned very important soft skills such as interviewing, communicating, and presenting along with hard skills such as computer coding. In this program, I have become a much more confident public speaker and also became Microsoft Word and PowerPoint 2016 certified. I have been exposed to 4 different coding languages (visual basic, C#, SAS, and java) and given the opportunity to participate in an internship at a place of my choice. I interned at the Duke Cancer Institute, which is why this blog was started. Part of my assignments for this internship was to write updates for every 5-10 hours of work and write about what I enjoyed about the workplace.

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