Marysol Chu Carty week 5

 This week I was able to start one of my experiments with a couple of different cell lines to test the menin inhibitor. As I mentioned previously, it is known to work for leukemia but there is potential that it could have an effect on other hematological malignancies. The goal is to then construct a dose-response curve with the different cell lines using Leukemia cells as our control. That took up most of Monday because it was a new protocol but I was glad to be able to start it. 

On Tuesday we had our weekly meeting where we had the opportunity to hear a talk about the impact of Chat GPT on health care and the different applications that are emerging with this technology. As interesting and powerful as it is we also discussed some potential ethical implications that we may see as this program continues to grow and develop. 

On  Wednesday I shadowed Dr. Jason Spector for his bilateral breast reduction and liposuction procedure along with Ashley and Salman as they collected samples for their experiments. It was something completely unrelated to my area of research but I had the chance to meet Dr.Spector who I had heard so many great things about and see a pretty cool surgery! I also attended the flow cytometry training in the afternoon that Weill Cornell requires which went over the mechanism of the flow cytometer and some basic guidelines for using that piece of equipment. I then ended the 48 hr timepoint for my experiment on Thursday and, with the help of someone else in the lab, learned how to actually use the flow cytometer to analyze my sample. From what we could tell, it all went well, which is exciting! I will have a better idea next week when I can analyze the data I collected. 

I was pretty happy with my progress this past week and look forward to moving forward with this project !

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