I have never used social media especially blogging about research. It was strictly prohibited so this is something new.  I did enjoy reading everyone’s posts! I am in a lab that is researching polymers that can house cells. Most of the researchers are bioengineering graduate students. There are also two Rice University undergraduate students. I attended two lab meetings : The Collagen Group & the Polymer Group. I also attended their lab’s journal club meeting. As far as experiments … next week will be a repeat of last week … we will synthesize more peptides using the FMOC method (first picture) and prepare polymers (second picture).  The content of the peptide will be determined using Mass Spectrometry. The polymer will be tested using a Rheometer.  I  just had a learning “experience” with blogging as site did not want to load the pictures of the equipment … likely because  I cut the picture from my PowerPoint. Click here to see the Mass Spec and Rheometer … Equipment-2li5byu