Hello Everyone! We haven't done a post in a while, so I just wanted to give a quick update on how my internship has been going.
I've recently been moving into a lot of independent work, which is very exciting! One of my personal goals this summer was to oversee a mouse experiment from start to finish, and I had the chance to do that. For one week, I administered injections to a group of mice. At the end of the week, I sacked the mice, collected their blood, dissected them, and collected liver samples. Then, I ran the blood samples for cell count and ran the liver samples through qPCR to quantify protein expression. I have now started another full experiment with a very different procedure, so I'm looking forward to seeing that one through to the end as well. One goal down!
In general, I'm still learning even more techniques that will help me work with the mice. So far, everything has been running really smoothly and I'm loving the work. I have also begun assembling my research poster. It's been a challenge to distill the tons of information I have into a readable amount, but I'm figuring it out.
That's all for now, can't wait to see what you all have been up to!
Mel DeBlasio
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