Taylor Brown, Summer 2014, Blog Post 5

Blog 5:

Hey guys! I have one more surprise blog for you! I took a spontaneous trip to NY my last weekend on the East Coast!!! Here are pictures; it was my first time in NY!!! Big shout out to my high school cross country brother Edwin (Enrique, as I call him) Melon for agreeing to go with me!!! It was so much fun!

(me and Edwin, our first night in the city!)

(on a boat on our way to Lady Liberty)

(Times Square is so BRIGHT at night! Haha)

Remembering 911: Twin Tower Memorial fountain number 1

Remembering 911: Twin Tower Memorial fountain number 2

Remembering 911: The Freedom Tower

(we also went into the 911 museum as well; it was HUGE)

My favorite part; Central Park! <3 o:p="">

(the hot dogs we bought were massive! Haha)

Thanks for reading guys! Take care!

-Tay<3 o:p="">

Taylor Brown, Summer 2014, Blog Post 4

Hey Guys!

So I decided to write one more [short] blog, afterall haha. This one has pictures from my Poster Session and our last MSRP (MIT Summer Research Program) outing!. Both were tons of fun(:

The group at our Poster Session(:

Just us Girls

The HHMI EXROP girls (Lindsey and Rana) with each of our posters behind us.

My mentor Thales Papagiannakopoulos and I in front of my poster(:

[his last name is awesome, right?!]

Dr. Tyler Jacks and I! :D

And below are a couple of random pictures from our last MSRP outing

Sheena and Vanessa

Li, Me, Pablo, Rana, Lindsey, and Nadege :D

Playing in a Boston Fountain(:

We really bonded, what can I say? Haha. Largest lap-sit I’ve ever been in haha

Scientists in the Willows

And although, I haven't hit rock bottom, there's still nowhere to go but up ! :D

Time to reach for the moon (like my sister’s recently published children’s book titled Imani’s Moon : https://www.facebook.com/imanismoon?fref=ts ; http://www.amazon.com/Imanis-Moon-Janay-Brown-Wood/dp/1934133582 ) and apply to grad school to follow my dream of becoming a cancer researcher! Wish me luck everyone, and thank you for reading!

Sincerely,

Taylor Brown

Taylor Brown, Summer 2014, Blog Post 3

BLOG 3:

Hey everyone!

My summer is starting to wind down now; I’ve already presented my research to the Jacks Lab and and Dr. Jacks, but I still get two more weeks to do research!. Oh, and remember that lab outing I told you about? Yeah…that happened hahah. And it was so much fun! Still sore from running around Boston though haha. Someone calculated the distance we ran, and it was about 8.1 miles!

Duck (Slut) Dynasty…I was the Duck lol. We got lots of random pictures with people on the street, as well as lots of honks from cars driving by. And here is an example of one of the clue sheets:

And other costumes from lab members:

A duck, a playboy bunny, and a Broadie.

And here’s my poster!! (still a work in progress). Wish me luck on my poster presentation on Thursday! :D

And I believe this is my last post for the summer. Thanks for reading! It’s been a great summer, but boy am I homesick for LA! Anyway, Take care!

-Taylor(:

Taylor Brown, Summer 2014, Blog Post 2

BLOG 2:

Hey guys!

Sooooo, my MSRP program is sort of all kinds of awesome! I love the people in it, and I’ve gone to a Harvard music festival, Salsa dancing, out to eat (ice cream and dinner), to the movies, kayaking, played JUSTDANCE, had “brunch”, went on a boat cruise, went on a trip to Martha’s Vineyard, jumped on trampolines at Skyzone, and have explored Boston with people in my group. Hahhaha I’ve been joking with Rana that I have more of a life here than I have at home haha. But I’m glad I get to do my work, and then play too while I’m here(:

Random pictures:

Martha’s Vineyard:

Boat Cruise:

Kayaking:

And I’ve also ran into Julio Silva, a fellow MARCer, and we’ve hung out a couple of times(:

Oh, and my dad actually came to visit me 4th of July weekend (because fireworks and festivals here are AMAZING here), and he is a huge history nerd, so we got to experience the 4th and explore some historical sites in Boston (as well as explore Harvard and MIT) together; it was fun, and I think he enjoyed himself.

And research is going well! I have a western blot (that allows you to visualize proteins; they are the black bands on the image; the “sg” is what targets and mutates the genes of interest)

and a surveyor gel (which allows you to see if your cells are properly mutated; you want to see two bands for each of the mutants and a single band for the wildtype/normal cells,  and this is exactly what we see! :D)

Okay, that’s all for now!
I’ll write again soon. Take care!

-Tay<3 o:p="">