Research

[sabrina85]

How many people that are applying this cycle have done research? Dental or otherwise.

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[wigglytooth]

How many people that are applying this cycle have done research? Dental or otherwise.

I've done some lab tech'ing my junior year, running protocols and whatnot. Not "real research," because I didn't really get to interpret the data I collected (the perio resident I was working with did). This year, I'm working in a smaller lab, so I will see a lot of my results and get to figure out what they mean. Plus I hope to do an independent study in the Spring. The junior year lab dealt with a toxin that is involved in periodontal disease and this year I am working with a gene that is involved in some cases of oral cancer. Pretty exciting stuff!

 

[futuredds08]

I did a couple of research projects, which I found both to be incredibly rewarding.

My senior thesis comprised of looking at a glioblastoma (brain cancer) cell line and exposing it to a protein kinase C inhibitor (staurosporine) to discover how this affects progression throught the cell cycle. I found a previously uncharacterized S-phase delay, and am hoping to publish these results when my research advisor returns from the Czech Republic doing a volunteer semester.

I also did an internship for a summer and worked on moving a transposable element from an intron into an exon of a gene dealing with muscle morphogenesis in drosophila. This also meant staining embryos to look at the phenotypic effects of moving this "piggyback" element.

I have not been published in either project, but hope to be in the first, like I said above. Not meaning to be a thread hijacker, but I love hearing about what others have done. To the OP, were you asking because you have also done undergraduate research. If so, what did you do?

 

[sabrina85]

Yes, I have done research at the dental school at my university. I was never really interested in research until I started working there and got involved with the whole process. And now, I really, honestly love it.

 

[REDSOX08]

I did two years of research at Los Alamos National Labs for the Department of Defense Bio-Terrorism Division which consisted of a lot of classified experiments dealing with Bacillus Anthracis (anthrax) and Q-fever.

 

[jbeaner]

I did two years of research at Los Alamos National Labs for the Department of Defense Bio-Terrorism Division which consisted of a lot of classified experiments dealing with Bacillus Anthracis (anthrax) and Q-fever.

Holy cow! That's enough to make me like research. WOW

 

[CaliGirl15]

I worked in a research lab for 6 months running basic experiments. Again no real "research" was done on my part. I basically made tau protein. But it was cool because it was a lab dealing with Alzheimer's which is really interesting to me. Definitely learned a lot about the disease.