Peddie EXP Summer 2018

These past two weeks have been amazing (and hectic)! My Time in the Lab: I am beyond grateful for everyone in my lab—they are all so helpful and it is truly a blessing to have so many great mentors! This first month in the lab has been an eye-opening experience for me on so many different levels. Immersing myself into the “real world” of science through research has not only confirmed my passion for cellular biology but has also furthered it. I am so fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in exciting and ground-breaking cancer and metabolism research! In my third week, I gave my first lab presentation in front of Dr. Goldstein, Preston, Johnny, Blake, and Ana. I was a little nervous because I didn’t want to present any of Preston’s and my results incorrectly, but I felt that discussing our work with everyone made me more confident in my role in the lab and honed my presentation skills. Dr. Goldstein emphasizes the importance of being a strong presenter in researc...

Week 3 and Week 4 After somewhat settling down in the new lab, the first couple of days were more of getting the finishing touches on the new lab. I helped the graduate students to get all the machines working such as the laser. After doing mostly basic stuff for the first two weeks, I actually started to work on my project for the summer, which is the program a machine that connects the laser and the laser platform, which moves around, to collect data from the samples. Through week 3 and week 4, I mostly went in and out on this project. I did a lot of coding, but I also helped other graduate students with their own projects. For instance, I helped Anu, a graduate student in my lab, collecting graphs and peaks of samples using spectroscopy. While doing this, we had to use liquid nitrogen in the process. Therefore, we played around with liquid nitrogen. I also helped other graduate students collecting data. We also had a lot of fun. Since I am a really big soccer fan and I ha...