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Poster presentations
July 22, 2009 —
So today is the research poster presentation session. This goes on from 2:00-4:00 in CE 450 if you would care to join us. I’ll hopefully be taking some video of the event so you all can see what everyone has done for the past six weeks. I’ll go ahead and post another blog of what I saw and some other programs that are offered through IUPUI.
Results!!
July 16, 2009 — We got some results today on our inhibitors but we don’t really know what to make of them yet. Sometimes when you get data, it’s unexpected and you might learn something new. Ours is showing us that we either messed up, have a lot of background, or could be something that we weren’t expecting to be true. That’s the beauty about research, you’re always learning something new and getting proved wrong a lot, in the nicest way.
Full storyStaying late
July 10, 2009 —
Staying late in the lab is part of the game sometimes. I just got out of the lab today at 8:30 PM, working since 10:00 AM. So if you don’t love what you are doing, it’s hard to do. Although it’s hard for me to get out of bed in the mornings, I love going into work and doing something that no one else is doing. I work with certain biological processes that hopefully are not being studied by someone else. We do this to write papers, get grant money, and do it all over again. We’re always trying to further our knowledge of our world around us, and I like to think I’m helping in the smallest way possible. But those smallest ways lead to the medicines that save people or make their lives better in some way.
Programs
June 29, 2009 — I’m going to write about the programs I have been in for anyone interested in doing research. The programs I have been in are UROP, McNair, and T35.
Full storyThe importance of mentors
June 22, 2009 — Most of what I’m doing for Summer Impact is to account for what I am doing during the summer, but I like to explain a few things along the way. The programs I have been in for the past three years have always pushed the importance of mentors. My own experience has shown me that they can be your best ally or your worst enemy depending on your attitude and personality. Some people just don’t get along for no apparent reason. That’s just how it goes. However, if you work hard and they see it, getting a letter of recommendation from them could get you very far, whether it is for medical school, grad school, or any place of employment. Medical schools and professional schools normally hold people who have done research in any field of study higher than people who haven’t, giving you a better chance of getting in.
Full storyGetting there...
June 16, 2009 — So my training is over and now I’m on my own, for the most part. I got to learn some more techniques for doing research on my subject. For instance, I re-learned immunoprecipitation which is a method for us to pull out certain proteins that we want from crushed up tissue. I also did a few western blots and immunohistochemistry is coming up. That is where we stain slides with antibodies and they fluoresce. All in all my research is coming along, slowly but surely.
Full storyAnd so it begins...
June 3, 2009 — First day jitters don’t apply when you’re doing research; every day jitters is more like it. Messing up is a part of doing research, one lesson I learned through doing it for the past few years. This was the first day in my lab for the summer with the T35 Summer Research Opportunities Program. I have been working on/helping with several different projects for the past year now, but I will be focusing mainly on histone acetylases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs).
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