It feels surreal that next week is the last week of the program. Time has flown but it has also felt like I've been here forever. To no ones surprise, I spent the past weekend working on my poster and making progress before Wednesday's poster critique. Monday through Wednesday I spent 8 hours a day looking at a computer screen, writing, and rewriting. After this experience, I've learned that posters are a lot harder to make than they look. Hours of moving pictures slightly to the right to align them, fiddling with the line spacing, and adding arrows to photos takes much longer than it appears. Either way, my poster critique on Wednesday went better than I could've imagined. I got some great feedback from Richard, Maya, Nicole, and the other REU students. Everyone's suggestions were super helpful and I was able to make changes to my poster later in the week. As I am writing this, I just submitted my edited poster for review. If there arent any issues, it's my final submission! This next week (and last) is going to be insanely packed and (in my opinion) the coolest of them all. To break it down: Monday: I will be cutting more blocks of Ifremeria gonad and brood pouch to see which blocks have the best gonad sections. Later in the day I will be heading to my mentor Craig Young's house to have a potluck. Tuesday: I will be re-cutting the best blocks of Ifremeria and Alviniconcha from Monday with a DIAMOND knife (I don't even know how this is real life) to prep for TEM Wednesday: The Young Lab is heading up to the main campus in Eugene (~2.5 hrs from campus) to do TEM (transmission electron microscopy) to image bacteria in the gonads of Ifremeria and Alviniconcha. Thursday: Wrap up lab work and prep for the poster session Friday: Have the poster session, say goodbye to the grad students, and pack my suitcase Little video below about my favorite clips from the summer so far! Also, an IMAX production crew is filming a movie about the Young Lab and their next cruise about deep-sea larva with a focus on women in science. In simpler terms, a camera man will be in the lab filming B roll for the movie, joining us in Eugene to film the TEM process, and interviewing me and Ytxzae for the film. If you need to speak to me, you'll have to contact my manager first or set up a meeting with my assistant - I might be too busy prepping for the Oscars. See you all in theaters 2024!
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AuthorHello! My name is Flynn Gorman and I am working in the Young Lab and studying the embryology of the gastropods Ifremeria nautilei and Alviniconcha this summer. I am from New Jersey and I am pursuing a B.S. in Biology at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. I also work at a coffee shop on campus and act as the PR Director for my acapella group. Archives
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