Week 2:
The Children’s Hospital
June 5, 2013 | This has been a very productive week for me. After all of the reading I did last week, I was ready to start entering some data. This past week I have been working on calling patients to see if they are willing to help us with our research project. If they say yes, then we […]
Week 1:
Institute for Exploited, Trafficked and Missing Persons
June 5, 2013 | First weeks are always a whirlwind, and mine was no different. I arrived in Minneapolis and started work the next day at 8:30am. Our offices have just been moved and everyone seems very excited about the new space. My office has a large window with a small yellow bird who likes to keep me company […]
Week 3:
University of Iowa Department of Biochemistry
June 4, 2013 | The frozen cells from the previous week were thawed and put through a process called crude filtration. The cells were lysed and the lysate was then filtered before being mixed with beads coated in an anti-FLAG protein that will bind to the flag tag on our FANCJ and hold it to the beads. The bead […]
Week 2:
University of Iowa Department of Biochemistry
June 3, 2013 | This week was noticeably more rhythmic than last week. The protocols I performed I had already done the week before and was much more comfortable than week one where absolutely everything was new. The molecular cloning process we’re performing is done by putting different parts of the C-terminus of HCN1 onto ACTx reporter protein sequence. […]
Week 3:
Baruch Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences
June 3, 2013 | As I lay on my bed gazing out my window I suddenly realized that the third week had already passed me by. The time has passed more quickly than I had expected; more quickly than I had hoped. The humidity continues to wear on my nerves, and the bugs even more so. I continue to […]
Week 2:
Mayo Clinic
June 3, 2013 | This past week I worked on compiling a list of patients for our survey-based project regarding Parkinson’s disease and REM behavioral disorder. I read over 250 patient charts to create two mailing lists: patients with Parkinson’s disease and patients with both Parkinson’s disease and REM behavioral disorder. We started with a list of patients (50-80 […]
Week 1:
University of Iowa Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
June 3, 2013 | My first week has been super busy! I am working in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology under Rob Cornell. His lab is looking at neurodegeneration in zebrafish and how it specifically relates to Parkinson’s disease. I am also a part of the FUTURE program, so my time will be divided between the research […]
Week 1:
Project Transitions
June 1, 2013 | Preconceived notions are wrong in approximately 99.8% of all circumstances. And 77.2% of all statistics you read are made up. As a result of both, we must come to our own conclusions. I came into my internship with preconceived notions I didn’t even realize I had. I’d like to go through them one by one […]
Week 2:
African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa
June 1, 2013 | Week two at the museum was cut a bit short. Monday was Memorial Day and Friday because of flood warnings, I was told to stay home. So in this short week, I took far more photos to give everyone an idea of what the museum is like. Those are found at the end of this […]
Week 1:
African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa
June 1, 2013 | I can’t believe two weeks of my internship area already over. I’m going to split each week into a blog, for simplicity. The first week I spent the majority of my time between several projects. I worked on updating the museum’s traveling exhibits and website, fact checking, researching, and editing. I also worked a bit […]