Quick recap, my name is Evan Strand and I’m interning at Scripps Research Institute researching the neuroscience of metabolism.
This week felt both very repetitive and completely new. It started with a presentation for from Dr. Ya-chieh Hsu, a professor at Harvard University, talking about her experiment on testing the cause of grey hair and how stress play a role in how the hair loses it pigmentation. Then throughout the rest of the week I was continuing practicing the vibratome and doing perfusions. Tomorrow I will be presenting a summary to my lab about a recent scientific article that says it found a metabolite(substance needed for metabolism) that suppresses feeding and obesity. I find the article very interest since it is very similar to what my lab is researching.
This weekend, the professor of my lab had a summer party. He is into botany, mostly fruits, and he was tell everyone at the party that he spent most of his time during the pandemic taking care of his plants. He also has a pet rabbit which is named Coconut that we got to pet and feed. At the party we enjoyed Chinese food and playing card games.
Coconut the rabbit
On Sunday, for Father’s Day, I went with my host family to go whale watching. While we were out at see we got to see a blue whale, and on our way back we saw a pod of dolphins.
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