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Our flat rock expedition! Love that the mountain is so close. Only took us an hour to retrieve the perfect flat slab for behind our tiny stove! (stone and stove pictures to come!) #rock #stone #granite #expedition #adventure #tinyhouse #tinyhouseonwheels #tiny #home #renovation #hardwork #dream #nelsonbc #kootenays #kootenaylife #lab #blacklab #purplehair #backyard #beautifulbc #ohtheplacesyoullgo
First day she came home Neeya wouldn't even go down the stairs. From the biggest scaredy cat around to an adventurer eager to explore all sorts of strange things her humans expose her to. Drinking out of water bottles, wearing backpacks and even trying to climb up ladders! We are so lucky to have such a wonderful girl as part of our family. #addopteddog #bcspca #lab #blacklab #cutie #dog #love #adventure #kootenays #kootenaylife #nelsonbc #backyard #beautifulbc #pup #bestdogever #fun
Our new Cubic Mini Wood Stove for our #tinyhome (*our pup Neeya for size reference)! Getting closer and closer! π #tinyhouse #tinyhouseonwheels #tiny #home #renovation #hardwork #dream #nelsonbc #kootenays #kootenaylife #lab #blacklab #cutie #dog #woodstove #tinywoodstove #cubicminiwoodstove #madeincanada
Day in the life of an engineering major: Notes so long you have to take a picture of the white board. Senior who has this life thing figured out 3D printing a robotic arm built with video game controller parts. TA makes fun of us for being lazy and taking pictures of the chalk board - revolt by taking selfies with the chalk board. Full wave bridge rectifier decided to cooperate with the breadboard today producing a clean image on the oscilloscope. Instead of causing stack overflows stability of a system can be diagnosed when looking at a block diagram. Professor judges the mess of clamps connected to super ground. Realizing you actually need to be employed after college, cleaning up and attending a job fair. Realizing everyone is having a post college employment crisis, talking to as many recruiters as possible while snagging free company swag.
Fellow Co-Op shared her experience testing Curiosity Rover's drill, Morpheous tested thrusters and students toured space structure labs.
Jackelynne Silva-Martinez Β presented "Behind the Scenes on the Verification and Validation (V&V) Tests of the Curiosity Rover's Robotic Arm." The Curiosity rover has been gathering data on Mars since August 2012. Jacky is a mechanical engineer who was a test operator for the MSL robotic arm during its V&V surface tests for sample acquisition, processing and handling. She tested with equipment which are a replica of the drill and the Collection and Handling for In situ Martian Rock Analysis (CHIMRA).
Engineering Structures (ES) students hosted a presentation and tour of labs that they work in for fellow Co-Ops and interns. These ES students are working on testing materials that cover Orion, untangling vibrations the Space Launch System experiences during tests and analyzing samples after the first Orion test. Β
ES had lab with electron microscopes, impact test tools and a 3D printing lab. From the outside the ES building looks like a bunch of office spaces but nested in the inside are many we equipped labs.
July 20th was the Moon Landing's 47th anniversary. In celebration Johnson Space hosted an ice-cream party!
Morpheus is a planetary lander capable of taking off vertically. This week Morpheus' positioning thrusters were tested to capture footage for Engineering Propulsion. The test happened outside and we had to stay in the lab to remotely operate the test. Co-Op Michael O'Donnell is working on Morpheus preparing it's fuel chambers for thermo testing.
NASA Co-Op Week 16: Barf Lab & Mockups
Twenty five weeks at NASA Johnson I finally got a proper tour, lead by a tour guide, of the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility that houses exact replicas (build with same blueprint) of International Space Station modules, Shuttle, and Soyuz. Astronauts train in these mockups. A "low definition" mockup of Orion was present too.
Neurosciences Laboratory took us on a tour of their various astronaut barf machines. It is really like the rumors of spinning chairs, dizzying treadmills, and dark enclosed sliding contraptions. The spinning is to isolate parts of your brain that are used for balance. Only one day after Space Station astronauts return to Earth in Russia they are flown over to Johnson Space Center and put through a series of gravity adaptation tests. They had to pick up weighted objects, navigate around obstacles, jump of a short platform, and exit a hatch like structure. These tests will help NASA determine if astronauts would be capable of completing Mars surface operations after a long low gravity flight to the Red Planet. I wouldn't be surprised if returning astronauts Kjell, Oleg and Kimiya are on their way to the barf lab right now!
Most of the NASA Johnson Co-Ops and Interns complete their Fall semester this week. It is absolutely heart breaking to get to know so many space passionate people only to have to say goodbye at the end of the semester. I wish I could see all of these stellar students participate in NASA's future as they have already contributed to the growth of space exploration. It was an honor to work among these bright minds.
WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
Accomplishments this week at NASA: https://youtu.be/4tw5uwHD0PEApply for a NASA Internship NOW (high school to grad school):https://intern.nasa.gov/ossi/web/public/main/Apply for a NASA Co-Op (Pathways Internship):http://nasajobs.nasa.gov/studentopps/employment/opportunities.htmLearn to code: https://hourofcode.com/usMeteor Shower live chat December 13th: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2015/M15-180.htmlCurrent NASA opportunities for students: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/current-opps-index.htmlCode more: https://www.madewithcode.com/
look at that inflammatory process!!
this is a intestinal polyp slide. also check out that hemossiderosis in the hemorraged vessel to right!
Metastatic embolus from breast adenocarcinoma in the lungs
cancer cells are usually very metamorphic, which you can tell by the different shapes of the nuclei in this embolus. i love how you can see the metastasis inside a vessel perfectly in this picture!
How did you and Bill meet? Sorry if you've already answered this lol
Hey! Im still here
Hello people! Lately i been doing the usual of studying and so on. This semester we started a few new classes like pharmacology and im pretty excited as well as i am scared of it!
On the other hand, i continue to go through the lab work with a few DNA extractions from blood and buffy coat, pretty fun if you let me say!
Good luck everyone!
Nanodrop practice
Yesterday I had the opportunity to practice with some DNA samples in the nanodrop, so tonight after finishing my duties as student council I decided to transcribe my notes from the lab.
Who am i?
Hello! I just wanted to introduce myself.
I'm Apollo, 20 y/o and currently studying biotech in the healthcare area. I'm a research enthusiast and currently working on a historical paper on medical education in my country.
The subjects I am taking this semester areβ¦
Public Health π₯
Pharmacology π
Patophysiology π«
Molecular Technologies applied to diagnosis (on lab) π₯Ό
Nowadays
Besides the paper I'm writing with my professor, I'm visiting a genetic Lab to sweeten my motor skills in PCR and other techniques.
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And I have already finished the following subjects
Anatomy
Physiology cellular and neuro
Biochemistry
Physics
Math
Histology and embryology
Genetics
Biology cellular and molecular
Chemistry
Applied Biochemistry (lab work)
Immunology
Physiology of the systems
Microbiology
Study lately
Might just tryna romanticize my life by recording myself studying and putting candles while doing so, not much.
Pink gloves make the world a better place π
Today I began my lectures about in vitro. What in vitro is? The technique or process of maintaining or cultivating cells or tissues derived from a living organism in a culture medium. In vitro literally means βin glassβ. On a picture we can see plant culture. π§ͺπ±
This is chlorophyll A, who change colour π->β€οΈ, when we highlight him.
We can see fluorescence only when we release chlorophyll molecules from chloroplasts. Chlorophyll fluorescence is light re-emitted by chlorophyll molecules during return from excited to non-excited states.
My plants update π±
Today I made Traube cells experiment, it's awesome π A Traube cell is an "artificial cell" created by Moritz Traube in order to study the processes of living cells, including growth and osmosis. The Traube cell is not a true artificial cell, as it is not living and does not have true biological process, but it looks like plants π±
Bioprocess engineering in practice. Long & funny sunday π
πΊ Microbiology day πΈ
Monday is the best time to make beer. πβ€οΈ