Goodbye Ayah and Gurleen

11 Aug 2016 by rasi

We had two terrific high school interns in our lab this summer, Ayah Idris and Gurleen Bassi. Ayah and Gurleen constructed a genetic reporter for detecting ribosome pauses in E. coli. Max was a fantastic mentor and taught them translation biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular cloning. In addition, both Ayah and Gurleen turned out to be Python wizards: They learned to read data files with Pandas, identify prime numbers, and use Python to send mass spam – all within two days! The jupyterhub setup by Fred Hutch Scientific Computing made all this really easy. Ayah will be starting as a freshman at UW and Gurleen will continue as a high school senior in Federal Way. Good luck, Ayah and Gurleen!