High School Honors

Research Internship Program 2003

25th Anniversary

The 15 students in the Summer 2003 program! Group photo credit: Charles Krupa (AP).

Jenny (left) obscreening the F2 progeny of mutagenized C elegans. Katie (right) counts chick embryo retinal cells under a microscope.

 

Alex (left) cools down his sample with liquid hydrogen. Ben (right) tests an imaging device on the computer.

 

Lauren soaks an antibody in the first step in the western blot procedure to separte proteins based on weight and then staining them.

 

Stephanie is running a SDS Poly-acrylamide gel electrophoresis to analyze the interaction
between the primary antibody Desmin and the MURF protein.

 

Austin, Nick, and Vinith work on the thin films and semiconductor devices at the MIT Magnet Lab.

 

Kim, Natalie, and Jen pipet samples for MS research at the Harvard Institute of Medicine.

Dan adjusts the voltage to change the wavelength of a temperature sensitive laser in the BU Photonics Center.

Kelly prepares a sample for analysis to study zebrafish. Courtney and her mentor Alan view protein simulations in the chemistry lab.

 

Jenny and Stephanie during their presentations of their research at the end of the program.

The students pose for one last picture at the end of their presentations. Good luck everyone and thank you for a wonderful program!