Week 3:
The Children’s Hospital
June 12, 2013 | If there is a take-home message from my work this week, it would be that research can be…well…messy. I have been working on collecting important information, such as post-operative complications, operative time, days in ICU, and estimated blood loss along with many other variables. To find this information I have to comb through old medical […]
Week 2:
Institute for Exploited, Trafficked and Missing Persons
June 12, 2013 | Human Rights work isn’t really a 9-5 sort of career. This is becoming evident to me as I work side by side with people who are as passionate about righting the worlds injustices as I am. At lunch I got into a heated discussion with Rebecca, another intern at the project, and it led to […]
Week 3:
African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa
June 11, 2013 | Okay, remember when I said I digitized over 900 photos for the Virgil Powell Collection? According to my digital output (sometimes you scan the backs of images too, if there is important information written on them, but for this collection that was a rare thing), I actually digitized over 2,000. When you spend 8 hours […]
Week 4:
University of Iowa Department of Biochemistry
June 11, 2013 | A bulk fluorometry was run on the elution from the crude filtration of last week to determine the elution’s concentration of FANCJ. This assay is possible because of the structure of FANCJ which contains an iron-sulfur cluster. This cluster quenches the fluorescence of cytochrome 3 and 5 when in close proximity, such as when it […]
Week 2:
University of Iowa Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
June 10, 2013 | Week two has been pretty exciting for me! I’ve started a few more projects, and I’m beginning to see the results! As I mentioned in my previous post, I did start a project involving NFN and PTU. Unfortunately, some of the embryos that I had left to look at their movement, all of the ones […]
Week 3:
Mayo Clinic
June 10, 2013 | This week I continued learning about REM sleep behavioral disorder. As I mentioned before, REM sleep behavioral disorder (RBD) is the enactment of dreams during REM sleep. Approximately 0.5% of the general population is affected by RBD, the majority occurring in men. In order to be diagnosed with RBD a patient must (1) have dream […]
Week 3:
University of Iowa Department of Biochemistry
June 10, 2013 | This week was referred to as “transgenic week” by the lab members due to the fact that we injected sperm nuclei (which had been modified by the reaction of the nuclei with two of our linearized plasmid constructs) into eggs this week. And when I say eggs, I mean about five hundred for each construct. […]
Week 4:
Baruch Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences
June 9, 2013 | It’s been a long week. The rain was ceaseless. Day, night; it made no difference. The few times when it let up were just as bad – the sky was gloomy and the air was thick as tar. Every morning, I awaken tired from a bad night’s sleep. The humidity also makes my face swell, […]
Week 2:
Twin Cities Orthopedics
June 8, 2013 | Week two of my fellowship consisted of my usual housekeeping type responsibilities and learning from the physical therapists. I received my name badge which allows me to access to staff only areas of the main floor. I was introduced to staff outside of the physical therapist rehab setting and am getting more familiar with my […]
Week 2:
Project Transitions
June 7, 2013 | My supervisor called me a workaholic-in-the-making on Tuesday at 5pm, an hour and a half after I was supposedly “done for the day”. A red flag flashed repeatedly right in front of my mind’s eye: WARNING. I know that I’ve always had trouble leaving projects unfinished, but this week was a prime example of why […]