![]() It’s been a few weeks into TRIP, and it has been nothing short of amazing. I got to do things that I’ve never done before, like icing and sorting flies and using micropipettes. The kickoff experiment was an incredible view into experimenting with flies. My project was about seeing the effects of intestinal inflammation and fly motility. I’ve induced intestinal inflammation by adding soap into the fly food and used licorice as a drug to help alleviate the inflammation and improve motility. A week later, I tested the flies’ motility by using Negative Geotaxis Assay, where I recorded the height to which flies climbed in three seconds and determined if they had normal or low motility. Although the results were not something I expected, almost all of the flies sat at the bottom of the vial and therefore were recorded as having low motility. The process of sharing my findings to my peers and instructors through a presentation taught me a lot about how to convey ideas in science and biology.
The process of sharing my findings to my peers and instructors through a presentation taught me a lot about how to convey ideas in science and biology.
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