Professional Goals

• Become proficient in the basic techniques taught in the lab, get comfortable working with the mice, and learn basic knowledge and protocol in the human study.
  • To achieve this I will practice skills frequently that have already been taught to me and ambitiously pursue more advanced techniques.
• Grow professional network
  • Foster relationships with people who I work with in the lab and attend Monday meetings to grow my network outside of the lab.
• Help design a new experiment to test on a cell culture.
  • Work alongside co-workers to think of a new experiment to test on the cell cultures and see its effect on bone structure and density.

To accomplish these goals I will need to gain a much deeper understanding of the inner processes that happen within bone and learn more about the many ongoing projects at the lab. To do this I will continue working diligently in the lab and in my spare time read up on recent published articles concerning osteoporosis and osteopetrosis.

• Finish my current experiment and another one that will measure how an experimental drug affects osteoclast resorption activity.
  • To do this, I will need to be very diligent in my work and stay focused.
• Complete a poster that I can be proud of and hopefully contains relevant information that can advance the current knowledge about osteopetrosis.
  • Continue in my experiments and learn how to properly present the data that I will have found by the end of the semester.