A Newbie at Kamino

As everyone knows, I have been interning with Kathleen at TGen. She is a really awesome person from Wisconsin and I am now starting to believe all really cool people come from Wisconsin. These past couple of weeks I have been learning about CRISPR, and I have been learning the TGen SDS system. This past week I was in the lab helping Kathleen with sorting out reagents from kits to dispose. We had to compartmentalize everything based on their pictograms and chemicals. It is such a great experience working in the TGen office.

S-STEM 4th Semester at Kamino

Hello everyone!

    My name is Cel Parra and this will be my fourth semester in the SSTEM program. If you have seen my previous blog posts, I have worked with ant DNA and cactus DNA. I specifically researched how closely the DNA was related to each other. I researched how closely related the ants were by observing the DNA bands to determine whether they came from the same nest. I did the same with DNA from cholla cactus spines to determine whether they reproduce sexually or asexually. This Fall 2016 term I am interning at the main TGen building downtown with Kathleen Kennedy. She is the ‎Manager of Environmental Health & Safety. It is going really well, and I cannot wait to see what the rest of this semester holds for me at TGen!