Week 4

Hello everyone, on week4, we were not able to commence our PLA due to time constraints. My thoughts for week four were, it would be a very busy week, lab wise, but as you have read it was not the case, because we only had two full work days. This does not mean we were not busy, because we were, but doing other things. Here is what we did, we attended Dr. Salvesen’s talk that was given to the Summer Bridge students at UCSD on Monday July, 15. I really liked the way Dr. Salvesen presented on apoptosis. Specially how he gave names to the proteins depending on the role they have on the pathway. It was the first time I heard the proteins be called jury, judge and executioners but it reinforce his explanation of the apoptotic pathway. All of the six interns worked on a presentation we did for Journal club at UCSD for the Bridge program. In addition, we had the opportunity to attend the 2013 Cancer Center Post-doc/Graduate student retreat. I had a great time at the retreat. I enjoyed learning what other types of research is taking place at Sanford Burnham’s Cancer Center. In addition, it was very interesting to see the graduate students presenting styles. Some of the presentations were added to some of the best presentations I have seen in my life. I really enjoyed the presenters that made their talks into a story. They had very good transitions from one slide to the next or from one experiment to the other. They made it clear that you need to have many experiments to test your hypothesis. Finally but not least, Luis and I got to take a look at protocols of the techniques we will be using for Week 5.