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Week 5 - 7/22

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On Monday, we watched the first presentations with the U54 group. This experience made me very appreciative of my AOIT presentation training. While they knew a significant amount about their research, their power points and presentations were not as engaging as I had hoped. I will be presenting next Monday on the things that I have started doing.

On Tuesday, I went to receive my first paper check from the payment office which I thought would be a nice walk through campus but turned out quite the opposite. Once I returned there was not much science work for me to do so I worked on my U54 presentation, helped make a few master mixes for a qPCR and worked on the review paper.

On Wednesday, I extracted RNA from a sample Bea was working on. Then later in the afternoon, I worked with Dolphin blood. We made several dilutions of it and added a mix which turned it blue.

On Thursday, I ran four western blots on my own. These will eventually be used to test different antibodies. These are the first westerns I have run completely by myself. The gels did rip some but I am hoping that they still transferred well.

On Friday, I started by extracting RNA for Bea. I used that RNA to run RT as well. I also ran second antibodies on a few western blots that were made a few days ago.

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