Week 5

 First off, I would like to apologize for not posting earlier and for not posting last week. I had a little issue locating the blog. I have two Google accounts so I would sign in with my other account onto blogger and the blog would not appear. Now that I had some time to think about and solve the issue, I have located the blog in my other account as you guys probably figured out if your reading this. Anyways now for the science...

      In week five we have finally acquired enough Bid protein to run the NMR! Like, anything else we have done in Pellecchia's Lab, they want us to acquire the necessary background and knowledge to be successful in an experiment and to give us an idea of why and how things happen. Saying thus, we were given a number of articles on NMR, which included how it works, what region to look at in our experiment, the advantages, disadvantages, etc. After going through the articles we briefly helped Elisa (our post-doc) preparing the NMR tubes to get ready for the screening. It was delayed because both of the NMR machines were down.  She also explained to us the project much more in-depth and what exactly are we looking for. In the mean time while the delay we started to express EphA3, once again.

    The second presentation was also held in week 5. I believe everyone has encountered their share of successes and failure, which is nice to sit down and talk about the failures as much as the successes. I felt everyone more relaxed, during the presentations because we knew what to expect. Overall, I believe everyone did a good job and just need to continue implementing  everyone's advice and continue working hard and with a purpose.