Under the guidance of Dennis Kopecko and Chandrakant Giri, Tamara Jennings engineered a plasmid vector for cloning new virulence genes involved in Salmonella typhimurium pathogenesis. The experience has given Jennings an appreciation for the importance of observation. Laboratory research is about analyzing situations and drawing conclusions. It is a thought process in which we can teach ourselves. Thus, I will try to teach my students not to rely on what the teacher or textbook tells them.
Students have to learn how to become self-sufficient and discover some things on their own.
In the laboratory of Scott Stibitz, Deanna Schmidt worked with the genome of Bordetella pertussis , the bacteria that causes whooping cough. Schmidt sought to identify new virulence factors controlled by the bvd locus of B. pertussis . I've discovered that lab work is fun. Robert E. Turner James H. Blake High School Robert Turner established a protocol using a computer imaging program to allow him and his colleagues in the laboratory of Cynthia Shannon-Weickert to measure the amount of glial cell protein in various areas of the prefrontal cortex during development. In the laboratory of Cynthia Shannon-Weickert, Mei Wang used gel electrophoresis, Northern and in situ hybridization, and other experimental techniques to determine whether TrkB, a protein involved in signaling in the brain, is expressed in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during development.