Chelsea Edgmont's blog

This week I was working by myself most of the time because Suzanne was out of town.  It was exciting that I had learned all these new skills and how to use the equipment and now I could go and use all I had learned by myself in the lab.  I extracted the DNA from the rest of the samples we took in Astoria but ran into some trouble and will have to redo one of the exptractions next week.  This week I also did alot of research on my project so that I will be prepared for my practice presentations on July 14th.  This will be a good way for me to practice presenting my projec

During this sencond week in the lab for me I have really started to understand the whole process by which I will be using the samples I took in Astoria last week.  I have been working closely with Suzanne as she works through the stable isotope probing process on the samples she took in the Esquary in March.  I wasn't here for the earlier portions of the process but I am learning how to isolate the plasmid and check for insert and then send for sequencing at the primate center.

This week was my first full week and was eventful as I learned how to work in the lab and got to take water samples in Astoria.

This week I was excited to start my work at CMOP.  However, becasuse I go to OSU I had finals exams during the first week of my CMOP internship and was only able to attend the orientation on Monday, June 8th.  This was a very helpful session to attend because I learned all about what I was going to be doing during my time here at OHSU.  I met my mentor, Suzanne DeLorenzo, and was introduced to the project I would be working on for the next ten weeks.  During orientation we also went through a lab safety training set up our emails and blogs so we