September 2, 2014
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on A Postcard From: Sofia Oleas ’15
Name: Sofia Oleas Year: 2015 Major: Biology and Psychology What’s happening? We’d love to hear how your internship is going. I learned how to spot Piping Plovers, an endangered shorebird, on the beach and how to find their nests. Along … Continue reading
August 11, 2014
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on A Postcard From: Lyntana Brougham ’16
Name: Lyntana Brougham Year: 2016 Major: Biology and English (double major) What’s happening? We’d love to hear how your internship is going! I have had an amazing summer experience! I’ve been working in Dr. Mozdzer’s lab with Phragmites, an invasive … Continue reading
August 1, 2014
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on A Postcard From: Rachel Hager ’15
Name: Rachel Hager Year: 2015 Major: Biology What’s happening? We’d love to hear how your internship is going! I’m spending the summer doing research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Maryland. Thanks to funding from the Howard … Continue reading
July 24, 2014
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on A Postcard From: Amanda Cline ’16
Name: Amanda Cline Year: 2016 Major: Biology What’s going on? We’d love to hear how your internship is going! My internship has just picked up in the last few weeks! Initially it was getting familiar with the laboratory setting and … Continue reading
July 8, 2014
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on A Postcard From: Renee Jingling Li ’17
Name: Renee Jingling Li Year: 2017 Major: Computer Science and Biology What’s happening? We’d love to hear how your internship is going! #Summer Science Research# on Computer Science? What is it? Does it mean immersing in computer lab for all … Continue reading
July 7, 2014
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on A Postcard From: Genesis Feliz ’15
Name: Genesis Feliz Class Year: 2015 Major: Biology What’s going on? We’d love to hear how your internship is going! I recently got back from my internship this past week and I’m already missing it! I was an intern at … Continue reading
August 1, 2013
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on Ivana Wang ’15: It’s Working!
Good news! I started my project over again, and everything is working! I isolated plasmids from BP clonase colonies, and the insert was in the plasmid, as confirmed after sequencing. The LR reaction was run after this, using both PDEST … Continue reading
July 16, 2013
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on Ivana Wang ’15: Take Two!
This week, a major problem has been detected. The primers used originally had the wrong sequence, so they had to be redesigned and reordered. We found out that the insert was not in the LR product or the BP product, … Continue reading
July 3, 2013
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on Ivana Wang ’15: Vectors Galore!
My project is going smoothly so far, and I’ve acquired a few new friends. There are three Russian students earning their PhDs in my lab. There is also another summer intern working on another project in my lab. All of … Continue reading
June 25, 2013
by Alyssa Banotai
Comments Off on A Postcard From: Ivana Wang
Name: Ivana Wang Class Year: 2015 Major: Biology What’s happening? We’d love to hear how your internship is going: I am working on a pancreatic cancer research project at Fox Chase Cancer Research Center. I am currently working on obtaining … Continue reading