This week was very busy. I continued working in the lab. The Biodesign building itself is very large. There are quite a few different projects going on at once in each of the six labs. The labs themselves stretch the length of half of the building. The lab that I am working in, Environmental Bioengineering is only several benches, and there are always other doctors and interns working all around me. My mentor, Dr. Steve VanGinkel, works with three other interns from ASU. Dr. VanGinkel is a research scientist at ASU and will be leaving at the end of this semester to go to Georgia Tech.

My responsibilities in the lab vary from day to day. The most interesting thing I have done is learn how to use a Confocal laser scanning microscopy microscope (CLSM). CLSM is a technique that allows 3D images to be created by scanning in-focus images from selected depths. The images are then used by the computer to create a high-resolution 3D image (as well as each individual section).