Research this summer,
along with the seminars and workshops I’ve been attending for SPUR, has been
quite the experience. I have been give information through the seminars and
workshops that will prove to be useful for my career such as writing for and looking
for grants to help fund my education. In lab, I have been learning a lot of new
techniques as well as mastering the techniques that I have acquired over the
past year in my lab. This week started with isolating hearts for my project.
Here is a picture of me holding a tube with three separate layers. It’s a step
in the protocol that I have come to have a love hate relationship with because
it’s been difficult to get just right. The top layer is all the organelles from
the cells that are not what I need for my extraction. The middle is the buffer
that separates everything in nucleus, which is found at the bottom of the tube.
This next picture is of the standard curve for my quantification of the amount
of proteins I’ve isolated from the whole hearts. This is what a standard week
looks for me in lab.
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