June 13
Today was my first day in the lab if you do not count the 3 hour training session. I am working at Princeton University in the chemical and biological engineering program under the Nelson Group. First off I was given a tour of the four rooms that the group uses: the main lab, the culture lab, the office and the cell freezing room. I was then given my own personal lab notebook that I can write all of my scientific discoveries in. I was also given my own section in of the lab which was a drawer that I can put the materials I'm working with and my lab notebook in. Quickly after that I learned how to dissect chicken embryos by watching a research specialist and a undergraduate. Soon enough I was able to take the embryo out of the egg and onto the petri dish. But the hard part is the micro dissection, you have to be able to look into a microscope while dissecting the embryo underneath of it. The lungs are hard to find in the chest cavity because of all the other tissues and organs in the way. Hopefully practice will make it become easier. Dissecting the lungs took up the first section of the day. For the second part I watched an undergraduate student do a part of her project. At the end of the day the post doc that will be looking over me showed me some of the mechanical engineering questions that his project was trying to answer. All in all, I thought it was a good start for the summer.
Patrick Quinn
Today was my first day in the lab if you do not count the 3 hour training session. I am working at Princeton University in the chemical and biological engineering program under the Nelson Group. First off I was given a tour of the four rooms that the group uses: the main lab, the culture lab, the office and the cell freezing room. I was then given my own personal lab notebook that I can write all of my scientific discoveries in. I was also given my own section in of the lab which was a drawer that I can put the materials I'm working with and my lab notebook in. Quickly after that I learned how to dissect chicken embryos by watching a research specialist and a undergraduate. Soon enough I was able to take the embryo out of the egg and onto the petri dish. But the hard part is the micro dissection, you have to be able to look into a microscope while dissecting the embryo underneath of it. The lungs are hard to find in the chest cavity because of all the other tissues and organs in the way. Hopefully practice will make it become easier. Dissecting the lungs took up the first section of the day. For the second part I watched an undergraduate student do a part of her project. At the end of the day the post doc that will be looking over me showed me some of the mechanical engineering questions that his project was trying to answer. All in all, I thought it was a good start for the summer.
Patrick Quinn
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