I asked Erin a few questions about the BLS summer\u00a0internship she attained through Lancaster University…<\/p>\n
Who supervised the internship?<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr\u00a0Robert Lauder<\/p>\n What was the research focus?<\/strong><\/p>\n I worked on a few different projects. One involved the use of Protein A as a biomarker for Staphylococcus aureus <\/em>infection in ICU patients, with another focusing on the presence of Alpha-haemolysin in the urine of ICU patients and how this changes over time. I also assisted in testing for cross reactivity in Ebola virus proteins as part of a project for the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n What did a typical day involve?<\/strong><\/p>\n I mostly ran protein gels then carried out Western blots to test a range of samples, but also carried out a few ELISA plates and was briefly introduced to the technique of mass spectrometry.<\/p>\n What did you enjoy about the internship?<\/strong><\/p>\n I enjoyed the independent nature of the lab work, as well as the fact I was getting paid to do something I like.<\/p>\n What didn\u2019t you enjoy about the internship?<\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes lab work can be unpredictable and it feels like you\u2019re doing a lot of work then achieving nothing, but overall I still kind of liked doing the work anyway.<\/p>\n How did you acquire the internship?<\/strong><\/p>\n It was advertised through the BLS department and I just applied by sending my CV and covering letter.<\/p>\n Any further comments?<\/strong><\/p>\n For people who like lab work this is the thing for you, I would recommend it to anyone, especially people interested in doing a research Masters or a career in research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I asked Erin a few questions about the BLS summer\u00a0internship she attained through Lancaster University… Who supervised the internship? Dr\u00a0Robert Lauder What was the research focus? I worked on a few different projects. One involved the use of Protein A as a biomarker for Staphylococcus aureus infection in ICU patients, with another focusing on the Read more about Erin, 3rd Year, Biological Sciences student discusses her summer internship<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":567,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,84],"tags":[15,33,31,30,13,12,14,32,34],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","category-life-as-a-student","tag-blog","tag-experience","tag-internship","tag-interview","tag-life","tag-new","tag-science","tag-university","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/files\/2016\/10\/Staphylococcus_aureus_VISA.jpg?fit=1420%2C1093","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9dFBD-u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/bls-student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}