Glenn Li, a 69热视频 Biochemistry student whose main research interest is discovering biological mechanisms, received a Schull Yang International Experience Award to participate in a four-month research internship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California.
鈥淢y time at the Guttman lab served as an invaluable learning experience. My main goals for this summer were to learn how to research independently, and how to better communicate my results and thinking to lab mates. Through my work on the Malat1 project, I learned to plan my own experiments, and to troubleshoot my own issues through reading literature and discussing problems with other lab members. Initially it was difficult to convey my thinking, and to explain the data I had generated during lab meetings, but my communication skills improved with the constant practice.
Aside from these learning experiences, this summer was also undoubtedly an academic success: my results have contributed to an upcoming paper that the lab will publish. The research environment at Caltech was perfect: Dr. Guttman was a great mentor and my lab mates were great to work with. The lab was well funded, so new instruments and reagents were readily available.鈥�
