Well, I made a mistake in yesterday's post. It was histone levels, not methylation levels that I was tracing. ( I know that you all were laughing up your sleeves at my oops. ) The methylation is actually going to come in when I am in the wet lab. Not sure exactly the difference yet - but the black spiky lines apparently are what they were looking for, and what was recorded on the graph. In any case, I found and graphed the oncogenes - 8 of them! Apparently genes only happen once on a chromosome, so - 8 graphs, and a quick writeup listing of all the genes I looked for.
Today I got my first taste of MatLab, and I did OK! My normal reaction of freaking out when a new computer program and language is staring me in the face did not last a whole long time- luckily I found a very helpful tutorial website to help me walk through it. I was able to actually achieve my goal of isolating chromosome 17 data today - which really surprised my mentor. She thought it would take me a lot longer, seeings how this was my first experience with it, and I was feeling my way around on my own. I was rejoicing! Pretty quietly, but rejoicing none-the-less.
Tomorrow I get to do autoclave and pipette training upstairs in the lab - and we are having a online meeting with all the other students and mentors, as well as the very nice people who are funding this adventure.
Hope you all are having a fun and relaxing summer!
Leslie
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