This is my final week of work! During this week I am working on just obtaining data from my perfusion system and hopefully getting enough data to reach a conclusion. I have made some significant changes in the way the perfusion system is run such as changing the chamber from a closed perfusion to an […]
during this week…
This week has been great! I was finally able to test the perfusion system I have been building for most of the summer and it worked great!(pictured is an early model of the tubing system, in my next post I will post a picture of the finished product!) We had to overcome some obstacles along […]
2 weeks left
As I near the end of my internship I have just started to feel at home in Israel. I have fallen into a standard, yet relaxing, routine of alternating my focus from work to the beach. As the summer has begun to come to an end many of my friends who I have gotten quite […]
Updates
A few updates from Israel! This week in the lab I have been working on transfecting cells with new DNA and imaging them under high powered microscopes. Work has been good as I have hit a point in the summer where I have begun to work almost entirely independently. I find this work extremely interesting […]
Israeli Food
This week has consisted of a lot of the same in regards to work. My research is continuing nicely however no major events worth documenting have occurred. I have been able to do some really cool things this week such as go to the beach and to the market. I wanted to touch on the […]
North trip!
This past weekend I went on a trip to a few places in northern Israel. Our first stop was in Haifa, a large city on the coast famous for its port. Here we went on a tour of the famous Bahai Gardens, a walkthrough botanical garden that goes along a large hill. The layout and […]