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Day 61: Results of gel electrophoresis
Gel stained with Coomassie Blue (3/7/2012) Last week I talked at length about gel electrophoresis and the prep process using green fluorescent protein (GFP) in my entry Day 55: Gel electrophoresis....
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Day 64: Centrifuge
The centrifuge (3/10/2012) A big part of my research thesis that uses NMR has been getting the sample prep right. I showed the filters that I was using in an earlier post, but these were creating...
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Day 65: NMR samples all in a row
Varying relative concentrations of sample mixtures (3/11/2012) Busy busy busy. Research research research. Read some Science entries, or, see more photos from my Project 365 here and read about My...
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Conference photo from Atlanta
During my oral presentation Taken on Day 2 of my Atlanta Trip, I stumbled across this photo on the website for the Emerging Researcher’s National (ERN) conference in Science, Technology, Engineering...
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Day 80: National American Chemical Society Conference
Standing in front of my poster presentation in the massive San Diego Convention Center (3/26/2012) This photo, captured by Dr. Grimley, stretches the rules a bit for Project 365 – but I’d be...
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Day 103: DNA extraction from fruit
DNA (in white) extracted from strawberries and bananas (4/18/2012) Of the biochemistry labs this semester, this may have been my favorite. See more photos from my Project 365 here and read about My...
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Analysis of commercially available foods for content of genetically modified...
INTRODUCTION Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have recently become the center of debate between scientists and environmentalists. While proponents hope to find innovative ways to feed the global...
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In celebration of a very successful oral presentation today,
here is my chemistry nerd get-up. Adorable! After sitting through a great number of oral presentations and visiting a fair number of posters, I had to give some thought about what goes in to a...
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Day 118: The Lumen Prize Share-a-thon
The Lumen Prize Share-a-thon (5/3/2012) The Lumen Prize, a scholarship awarded by Elon University to fund two-year independent research projects proposed by students in their sophomore year, has had a...
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Day 130: GlaxoSmithKline Women in Science Scholar
The certificate (5/15/2012) My sophomore year I was awarded a two-year scholarship with the GlaxoSmithKline Women in Science Scholars Program. While the program does include a small award for tuition,...
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