This week has been pretty uneventful. Even though the Experimental design paper was due today, I asked for an extension so I could talk to one of my mentors and finalize a methods. I spoke to them today and we finally decided on a method that is doable with my level of expertise. I will be testing whether estrogen increases the rate of choline metabolism by using empty vector and over expressing GDPD-6 MCF-7 ER+ cell lines. I will then starve them and then treat the cell lines with estrogen. After, I will test for GPC and MAP kinase using western blotting and NMR -spectroscopy. I now have to finish writing my methods section but my mentors offered to help me revise it so it's perfect, which I am grateful for. I also have to work on my lit review. I meant to do it this week, but we had standardized testing and I procrastinated. The good news is that I have three supporting sources for my second document already. If I finish writing up the supporting sources and incorporating it into my lit review, I would be mostly finished with the second draft. I just would need to add one more supporting source. While talking to my mentors, they recommended some articles, so I plan to use that as another supporting source. I just have to read and analyze them. Besides the write-ups, I have to work on my website. It still looks like a website for a company that offers tours up mountains. I would like to fix some parts of my website, mainly finish up my home page, by next week but we'll see how it goes. I got my scores back from my presentation and they were not as good as I expected. I got points deducted for not defining terms for my audience. I rehearsed it in such a way that I would explain, but I was sick and tired that day so I rushed through the presentation. I need to remember to do that next time I present. I will probably use photos to help me explain, as that's the best way to learn about metabolism and metabolic pathways, I also need to edit some of my slides to include information about my problem statement. I feel as if I answered all those questions while I was talking, but my teacher felt otherwise. I will just add the five facts to the slide so it's visible. Till next week. Tags: Lit Review; Networking; Planning; Presentation
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