One week left! At this point, it feels like the days are flying by and there is not enough time to do and finish everything I want to do. I am still gathering and analyzing data from our research in order to see its significance and to use it on my research poster. The hours I spend in lab are never enough and I always end up coming back in ‘til late to try and get as much done as possible. I learned how to make kymographs using Fiji, so that I could record the local ciliary reversal in our organisms. In my opinion, the kymograph looks really interesting and is similar to a movie. It is a bunch of stacked pictures, and it takes a slice of that and you can move through it to watch it. It’s a slice of a video and it shows the movement of the cilia. Flow fields measure the velocity of a fluid; I learned how to record artifactual flow field videos. This Tuesday, the first draft of our poster was due and we all received very useful suggestions and remarks from our Principal Investigators (PIs) as well as the rest of the REU interns. This Friday our posters were due to our PIs. It almost felt like déjà vu but I definitely think that this schedule of formulating and editing our posters makes things less stressful overall and keeps us interns organized and conscious of our time. A really amazing event this week was the Marine Invertebrate Ball. All the interns and the other undergraduate students from the summer semester dressed up, strutted and posed on the catwalk. Truly, every costume that I saw was well thought out. After the contest, we all ate our cupcakes and danced to some throwback music. It was super fun!
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AuthorHi! My name is Kostantina Orselli and I am transferring to California State University of Northridge. My interests include hiking, kayaking, playing with my dog, hanging out with friends, watching movies and more. I am ecstatic to be experiencing this opportunity at OIMB! Archives
August 2018
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