Ben's Academic Classes
I presented my summer Mentored Advanced Project (MAP) on campus with all the other chemistry MAP students!
It was super cool to be able to present my own work and answer questions. From this experience, I gained a lot of technical, research, detail-oriented, and problem-solving skills. This was one of my first times working in a lab, and sometimes things didn't go as planned. But that was also a big learning experience!
For my summer MAP, I grew E. coli and later used it to produce a specific protein. This MAP experience made me interested in research.
Professor Trimmer in the chemistry department was my MAP adviser, and she was very helpful in teaching me the ropes of research in general, and also in biochemistry and enzymology, specifically. She was a great mentor and taught me a lot that I will carry with me forever.
This was in my "Developmental Genetics" class, which is a biology class. Here, I created a mutant strain of C. elegans that has a mutation and a fluorescence marker, which you can see in the picture.
It was really cool to see this, because I was able to breed the C. elegan worms, in a way. It was an independent project, so it was very rewarding.
