Author: connietenorio

Science in the Park Outreach Event

I was happy to participate in an Outreach event at Lake Ella Park in Tallahassee. I helped extract DNA from bananas in a hands on demonstration as a way to get both young (and old) interested in science and science research!

DNA precipitation was achieved using salt, detergent, and cold ethanol.

Over 3,000 people attended and the exhibit was a hit!

A picture of some banana DNA (the white precipitate!)
A picture of some banana DNA (it’s the white precipitate at the top!)

 

Attended The 29th Annual Symposium of The Protein Society

I had an amazing time attending the 29th Annual Symposium of The Protein Society in Barcelona, Spain. I presented a poster on the results from Liam Longo’s paper, “A Single Aromatic Core Mutation Converts a Designed “Primitive” Protein from Halophile to Mesophile Folding” on which I am second author.

 

Barcelona was absolutely beautiful and I was thrilled to be attending my first conference ever! I was fortunate to have my sister Amy Tenorio attend this conference with me. Amy is currently an undergraduate in Biomedical Sciences at Florida International University.

I enjoyed meeting so many protein scientists from around the world and can not wait to go again soon!

 

So happy to have attended the protein society symposium!
So happy to have attended the protein society symposium!
Presenting my poster at the symposium.
Presenting my poster at the symposium.
Amy and I at the conference!
Amy and I at the conference!
A view of beautiful Barcelona from the National Art Museum of Catalonia, which was adjacent to the conference venue: Fira de Barcelona (which you can see in the lower right corner!)
A view of beautiful Barcelona from the National Art Museum of Catalonia, which was adjacent to the conference venue: Fira de Barcelona (which you can see in the lower right corner!)