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My name is Kouree Chesser and I recently completed a 10 week research experience in Dr. Blackburn’s lab. This opportunity was made possible through the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF-REU). Prior to joining the Blackburn lab, I…
My name is Shea Hausman. I am a rising high school senior, and I have been working in the Blackburn lab since November. When I tell people that I work in a cancer research lab using zebrafish, I normally get…
Hey guys! I know it has been a while since I’ve posted a blog, but a busy graduate student has to prioritize, and unfortunately a blog post on the lab website is a pretty low priority when compared to data,…
So for the past 6 months I've been following a protocol on how to 'clone' or make a syngeneic fish line. This has proved more difficult than anticipated due to the protocol being very deleterious for the embryos (heat shocking…
Hey guys, I have done… I finally finished… it is over… I have officially submitted my first student fellowship application to the NSF GRFP (https://www.nsfgrfp.org/ ). It was a monumen tal month this past October, between class work really kicking…
Woo! I can’t believe it is already August. This summer has flown by so fast between meetings, conferences, vacations, moving, ect. It feels like just a week ago I was a first year graduate student afraid of holding a pipette…
Over the past couple of months I've been learning how to microinject...which happens to be the most difficult and most frustrating things I've ever done. There are just so many parameters! You've gotta check the needle, cut the needle to…
Congratulations Rachel on receiving a travel award to present your poster at the Purdue Biochemistry Symposium!
After an exciting week, we microinjected our zebrafish embryos with a Crispr/Cas GFP construct in the hopes of promoting homology directed repair and tagging the hsp70i gene with GFP.
Check out our awesome new fish facility from Aquarius Fish Systems. Space for 8,000 animals and room to grow!