If at first you don’t succeed…
So last week was definitely the busiest week of the program. On Wednesday, I presented during our weekly lab meeting, wrote an abstract, and created a poster. I never used Powerpoint as much as I did in that short stretch of time and thanks to that I am a wiz at it! The lab meeting was probably the hardest task to complete, just because I was presenting for other lab members who were familiar with my topic unlike during the chalk talks and had much more to cover pertaining to methods and data. But it really helped to make sure I understood everything beforehand and be able to convey it myself to others. On to our experiments…on Friday after running our Western blot for the third time, we finally got very promising data (essentially we found a very specific domain on ”protein X” that is required for interaction with ALK-1). It’s so exciting to finally get successful data! Since that data will be on my poster, I will post my previous (slightly unsuccessful) western blots from my lab presentation, just to show what I’ve been working on for the past three weeks.
