August 7, 2014 | Although, it is my last week, I been having trouble logging into EPIC and with my badge access. There was a misunderstanding and I was terminated earlier than I was supposed to, thus had to deal with this situation to continue my data collecting. However, this gave me time to work on my PowerPoint presentation, […]

August 5, 2014 | The final week I washed some plates off the poly-L-lycine coating. I did some 24-well plates, 48-well plates, 6-well plates, and 4-well chambers. The 6-well plates required 3 mL of washing in each well. I also counted six more wells this week to finish off my third repetition of nuclear morphology assays. Then we finally […]

August 5, 2014 | Presentation week! Monday and Tuesday were for practice. It awed me when I got to know what my friends have been doing during the summer. I practiced with Brianna, Anna, Luis and Manuel on the 11th floor of the NRI until 9:00 pm, on which Hugo Bellen’s lab is on. Breathtaking view! We took turn to […]

July 29, 2014 | This was my final week at the Clinic and it feels so strange to be finished with my Fellowship.  I tremendously enjoyed going to the Clinic everyday and working with the children.  I did not realize how attached to the children I would become and truthfully, I am very sad to leave them. The week […]

July 28, 2014 | Data analysis week! We crushed tissues including LD and Gastro for 19 pigs. Rodrigo used a hamper to crush tissues, Hanh weighted tissues for Western Blot (200-250g) and for Ks (120-130g); I recorded the weight. We started homogenizing for Ks for a whole day. I assisted Agus with homogenizing for p75 and immunoprecipitation. It was […]

July 27, 2014 | This week we had a summer lecture with Dr. Miller about idiopathic scoliosis. I learned that scoliosis is an abnormal curve in the spine that often appears as a child is experiencing a growth spurt. Some spine curves are normal, but a scoliosis spine, curves to the side, has a lateral curvature or sometimes has […]

July 27, 2014 | Monday: This is it! My last week on the job. MY last day is the 23rd; it was going to be the 25th, but Dave has a fishing trip, and I’m not going to complain about two extra free days in DC! Today was income inequality paper-oriented; after the meeting last week, I have a […]

July 26, 2014 | My last few weeks in the lab weren’t very busy at all. Well, not really, there were a few days where everybody decided to ask me to help them with something and I ended up doing like four things at the same time. But mostly what I did in these last couple of weeks was […]

July 22, 2014 | This week I finished my final set of dual luciferase assays with the Firefly and Gaussia luciferases. Usually we would do the dual assay with NanoLuc and Gluc since Fluc needs ATP in the buffer to work. Fluc was also larger in size, which meant that the cells would use up more energy in producing […]

July 22, 2014 | I never thought this week would actually get here.  I have settled in quite comfortably here in South Carolina.  Although, I do miss my family and friends from home a lot.  It will be a slow week that in the end will seem like it flew by.  The office has been slow for most of […]