Welcome back fellows!!!

My “research activities” are listed in the summer research section of this blog and my project’s methodology is shown in the project section. During the last semester we were able to select the genes that we want to look at from the list that was obtain from the results of previuos studies using micrarrays. We also look for the sequence of those genes, design the primers for each gene and order them. At the end of this semester I hope to:

1. Optimize the Real Time PCR.

2. Validate each of the 11 genes selected.

 

This project will help us elucidate the importance of certain specific genes in the consolidation of memories. I’m very exited with this project because I’m learning how to use the GenBank and the Molecular databases, how to design primers and order them, and Real Time PCR, between other things. This is the kind of project that I really love to do, and it also will complement my findings in the project that I’m running for MARC.