2nd Week

The second week was much busier. I did a lot of different things in many different areas of the lab. TBRC is divided in to three different groups small animal, large animal, and human studies. I've been working under people in the small animal lab. The lab has two goals: decrease the percentages of chronic rejections in transplants; and use graft vs. host disease to fight cancer. Both goals rely heavily on the study of immunology and bone marrow transplants in paticular. Some of the work I've been doing is harvesting spleens and extracting cells from them, running PCRs, and other basic labwork whenever help is needed.