Week 10 & 11:
Carver College of Medicine

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 broke the code and matched up the wells that I counted with their actual respective transfections. The three sets of counting were consistent with each other and the results (shown below) were largely promising, although some did disagree with our hypothesis.

I presented my work at the final lab meeting presentation on Tuesday. Then I used the PowerPoint as the guideline to prepare my poster and presented it at the UI SURC (Summer Undergraduate Research Conference) the following Wednesday. My faculty sponsor, Dr. Barbara Christie-Pope, also visited me on Monday when I walked her through my lab meeting presentation to show her what I did this summer.