Monthly Archives: October 2017
R&R #3: Assessing Progress on Understanding the Material
1. How would you describe your progress so far? I’m not too sure how to describe it; while I would say that there has been improvement since the beginning of the term, there is still room for improvement. The material … Continue reading
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Final Project Outline [With and Without Feedback]
Final Project Outline (Submitted) Chen, Buffy_Biology463TemplateforProjectOutline Final Project Outline (Received back with comments from Dr.Kalas) Chen,Buffy_Biology463TemplateforProjectOutline_PamelaKalasEdits
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Unprompted whimsies #2: piwi interacting RNAs and development
For one of my other courses, we were asked to select a paper centered on transposons to present in small groups. I stumbled upon piwi interacting RNAs and its function in relation to transposons, and thought it was a pretty … Continue reading
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Response to The HOTAIR Readings:
One thing that came to my mind after reading the three articles was that the first article raised a good point about how it is important the way researchers address a controversy as opposed to the importance of the controversy … Continue reading
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Schorderet and Duboule, 2011 reading Response
One main question that I have after still reading “Structural and Functional Differences in the Long-noncoding RNA Hotair in Mouse and Human” by Schoderet and Duboule: It is interesting to read that a depletion of Hotair cognate lincRNA in mouse … Continue reading
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Jumping Ship! From Smaug to H19
This post is exactly as it sounds… After doing some research on the Smaug protein, and stumbling across H19, I’m switching the focus of my project from the Smaug protein to the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) H19. This is because … Continue reading
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R&R #2
1. Two things that I learned in drafting my research question for the final project is that A. It is easier to come up with a question in an area that you are interested in studying. I thought I had … Continue reading
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Assigned readings to prepare for Oct 2
The first three words that come into my head after reading the article, “Royalactin is not a royal making of a queen” and Kamakura’s reply are: Dynamic. On-going. Evidence.
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