So sorry, I’m a bit late on my blog, which should have been update before the quarter was over. I guess I was so focused and stressed out about finals. I spend dead week and finals week doing basically nothing…
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Finals Week Confession
Is it strange that I have been counting the days until dead week and finals? Getting to this light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel period of two weeks meant the end of 4 hour Organic Chemistry labs twice a week, those labs that managed to…
dead week…
This is dead week and have not made much progress with my research. I am now beginning to truly understand how difficult it is to be a student and a researcher at the same time. It seems as though once…
Posted in 2010-2011, McNair Scholars
Sidetracking is Encouraged
At one point while we were going through a fairly basic DNA amplifying process, Blair mentioned something called tetranucleotide frequency biases, and I was intrigued enough to track down a paper about it. One of the first things that you…
My Coffee Experiment, etc.
As you may well know, this week is dead week, meaning I no longer have a life outside of academics. That’s fine, I like school, but it takes some preparation to have a successful week. Therefore, I decided to try…
Posted in 2010-2011
Winter Quarter IV
In my last blog I talked about the intensity of seeing my polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis results since I have to wait overnight before I can scan the phosphor screen which has absorbed the spots where radioactive material was on the…
Alex Iteen is a second year student majoring in Biology. He is interested in bioengineering and synthetic biology. He is currently working in Dr. Fygenson's lab on DNA nanotubes. See all his posts
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Eneida Chesnut is a senior majoring in chemical engineering. She transferred from SBCC, where she studied chemistry. She works with organic materials for solar cells and is very interested in renewable energy research.See all her posts
Erzsebet is a second year chemical engineering major. She is interested in biotechnology and biophysics, and is working in Professor David Awschalom's lab investigating how cephalopod skin responds to different types of stimulation by light.
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Madison Cornwell is a second year student majoring in Biochemistry and Spanish. She is a EUREKA intern through the California NanoSystems Institute and the Resident Assistant of the Women in Science and Technology House in Manzanita Village. She will be working closely with Dr. Kosik and graduate student Israel Hernandez for the remainder of her time at UCSB.See all her posts
