Kirsten Linnabary's Portfolio

Documentation for Cincinnati Children's Summer Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Program (SURF)

 

This experience was Cincinnati Children’s Summer Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Program (SURF). During this project, I spent 8am-4:30pm every weekday working in the Molecular Cardiovascular Biology lab. I helped a post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Justin Boyer, do research on genes that cause muscular dystrophy in mice. From doing SURF, I learned plenty about the process of research and, if I want to have this career, what I need to do to go down this career path. I chose to engage in the experience because I was a part of this research in the spring, and SURF was offered to me while I was doing that program. The experience exceeded my expectations, because I enjoyed what I was doing and the people I was working with. This experience connects to my prior experiences, because it applies what I learned in the classroom to the real world. This experience was meaningful to me because it helped me gain confidence in myself. Through SURF, I gained confidence in my abilities as a researcher and a part of the working world. SURF helped inform me of my future intentions because I was able to really see what a post-doctoral fellow’s life was like. The prior knowledge that was most helpful was all of the lab techniques that I knew while going into the experience, and the best transferable knowledge that was gained by doing this experience was the knowledge of what a researcher’s life is like.

 

 

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August 18, 2015

 

The document below is my proposal to extend this research into the fall as a separate honor's project.