These two weeks, I decided to keep myself open to new opportunities so I could get the most out of your lab experience. Though I have been working primarily with SERT in staining slides, I got to try several new things this week that I am really excited about. First of all, I began working with another protein (tryptophan hydroxylase) that produce 5-HTT in an attempt to explain the high levels of serotonin in Giardiasis and IBS. One interesting thing that came from this slide production was that though SERT levels are higher on the outside of the intestine, trp levels are found to be higher on the inside of the intestine. This was very surprising to me because I assumed the reverse would be true. As for my continued work with SERT, levels in the distal colon still seem to remain higher than any part of the small intestine. This was an unexpected result that we first thought was a fluke, but now is presenting itself more and more. We will continue to look into that as we keep analyzin...