Hey everyone! I’m Emily, and I’ll be taking over the IU biochem blog for today, July 15th!
I started off the morning by waking up to three of my roommate’s alarms that started going off two hours before I needed to be awake… somehow, they woke up only me and not her. I ate some Fruit Loops as my breakfast and headed over to Lindley Hall for some group work at 9am. My group and I worked until 11:30, looking at different inhibitors and confirmations on MOE and preparing for the lab in the afternoon.
Then, at 11:30, we went to lunch at the IMU where I got Indian food from The Globe. A big group of us sat at a long table, and we enjoyed the break from working. At around 12:15, most of us started heading over to the Chemistry building where we worked on Lab Session 11 until a little after 5. Today, we focused on one inhibitor and tried to find the IC50, or the concentration of the inhibitor at which our enzyme’s activity was inhibited by 50%. We didn’t finish, but we did manage to make a good amount of progress.
After the lab, we went back to the dorm where a few of the girls talked until dinner at 6. Thankfully, it was extremely hot, so we could wear shorts. We ate at Forest, and I got a burger and fries. At 8, we had a dorm meeting, where we went over the rough schedule for this week (the last full week!!) and played a couple games for an hour.
From 9-10, my lab group and I worked on our presentations taking place tomorrow (wish us luck!!). We added finishing touches to some of the slides and practiced them. After turning in our laptops at 9:55, I talked with some friends until our curfew at 11pm. Overall, it was another great day!
