Weeks nine and ten: wrap up

Weeks nine and ten where used to wrap up the work, I did more catching up on cell counts on week eight since week nine was used mostly for other activities. The weekly culture transfers were done on Wednesday for both weeks since Tuesdays where used up. We also performed our daily time points every afternoon. These last two weeks I learnt to perform the ROS assays and ELISAs, these assays take all day to perform and are very time sensitive, so they have to be performed carefully. The final week was spent preparing for the final presentation and analyzing the data statistically, in which we found that there was no significant difference in any of our data. This opens up more questions as to what could be possibly going on in the cultures that is causing the results, the next step is to finalize the report and turn it in, this internship was an amazing learning experience, I’m taking a lot from it and hope that I can keep in touch with all the people I had the opportunity of meeting.