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!
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!
I am pleased to receive a presentation grant from the Congress of Graduate Students at Florida State University in the amount of $500 to attend and present my work at the annual Protein Society meeting in Barcelona, Spain!
The winning image of PV2 from the Art in STEM Research event has been featured on The Florida State University’s graduate school website. The link can be found here!
I was happy to receive the first place award along with Liam Longo for our picture of PV2 (Longo PNAS 2013) at the art in STEM research gallery exhibit today.
Liam has now left to start his post doctoral studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel! I wish him only the best.
I am lucky to have been selected for the Art in STEM Research gallery exhibit held at Florida State University. It is to be hosted by the Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) organization at Dirac Science Library. I will be presenting a crystal structure of PV2 (Longo PNAS 2013), a reduced alphabet protein I work with in the Blaber lab.
As a fan of both art and science, I feel this is a neat outreach opportunity to showcase my research to the general public by displaying an aesthetic and elegant conformation that a folded beta trefoil protein can adopt.
I am pleased to be second author on Liam Longo’s manuscript titled “A Single Aromatic Core Mutation Converts a Designed “Primitive” Protein from Halophile to Mesophile Folding” which has been accepted to Protein Science!
I was interviewed and featured in the summer 2014 issue of FSUMED Magazine and on the FSU 24/7 News website.
Link to site can be found here!
I am happy to announce that I have been selected as one of this year’s McKnight Doctoral Fellows! Only 50 people receive this award annually and I am extremely honored to have been chosen. This fellowship will help support me during my graduate career and includes a $5,000 tuition waiver along with an additional $12,000 for my yearly stipend!
In addition, I will be attending yearly FEF McKnight conferences and workshops dedicated to aiding fellows with a comprehensive system of academic support.
I am beyond excited for this amazing opportunity!
Happy to say I finally diffracted a crystal I set up by myself. The experience was awesome! I will never tire of being able to physically see proteins that I helped design.
Here is a picture of the lucky crystal!
