Week 3- Sharp Labs of America

This week I spent my week at Sharp Labs of America (SLA) and was able to see first hand the biosensors I am helping design.  It was very interesting to be able to see the gold surface of the electrodes under a scanning electron microscope.  There has been some complication with the cleaning of these biosensors, and so various treatments were performed, and my goal this week was to test the biosensors using oligonucleotides to see which treatment works best (doesn't disrupt the gold surface, but effectively cleans off a previous run).

This week was great.  I was able to see how the sensors are made, I learned how to use them, and then was able to collect and interpret the data graphically. 

Today I was back at CMOP and because our new primers arrived am back to running PCR to make more double-stranded targets that I will be able to use at SLA.

-Vena