Monday, July 14, 2008

UCLA Josep hargan Calvopina

Hey guys, this is Joseph. As opposed to traveling all over the place I decided to stay here in LA to get some work done and get everything ready for 199 in the fall. So currently I am situated in the Center for health Sciences in the department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology. I'm working under Dr. Hong Wu(PI) and Dr. Reginald Hill(Post Doc) on Pancreatic cancer. We are currently using a mouse model with various mutations to try and mimic the human disease. By using this model we will hopefully someday understand the mechanisms involved in the development of the disease. Unfortunately that day is still far far away, we have to get things to work first, hahaha. So far it has been a lot of trial and error because it is the first time we have tried many of these experiments. However there is some progress slowly but surely. I'm happy we finally got this apoptosis kit to work so I'm excited to get some results. Besides that summer is good, and the weather is cool. Next week members of our lab will go see Batman, so I'll keep you guys informed. Good luck with all your research! until the next post, lates!

Jospeh Hargan Calvopina

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