My research Interview

 Howdy y'all!

As some of you know, I just had my first research interview with this professor and his colleagues. This professor is located at Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. This medical campus is actually one of the medical schools that I wish to try to apply and attend in the future. It is one of the reasons why I wanted to apply and reach out to this professor, but one main reason is based on the research project that the professor is running. Before the interview, I knew that one of the professor's projects involved TB and another bacterial pathogen that is just known to be dangerous if your immune system is compromised. It is this kind of research that caught my attention due to my own personal research project that we have been tasked with, that being dealing with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. So this professor's research really intertwined with my own! When I got to interview, the professor told me more about his research and the other projects; their projects looked at the efficiencies of single- and multidrug doses against bacteria. 

There was one interesting fact that I did notice when the professor was telling me about his other projects: the way he and his colleagues would measure the efficiency of drug effects would be through a device known as the regulator. This device could measure the efficiency of the drugs against the bacterium and be able to identify if any bacteria remained alive against the drugs that the professor was testing them against. I found this to be really interesting and quite cool, mainly due to the fact that he could use this device and/or method among all his projects, especially since it seems to be a tool that could be used to measure the efficacy of multidrug killing and going up against different kind of bugs and or bacterium.

What I find to be ever more interesting and kind of smart was the fact the professor told me that he and his crew patented this device, which I think was actually a smart move as this would allow him and his team to be sole owner of there invention and tester. This could help hold greedy corporations and business from stealing there devices and selling it or even modifying it, although I do believe this device is still in progress and testing as he and his crew are still currently writing the paper that would be use to present this device and its ability to detect the effect against multidrug resistant bacterium.

That is what my experience is so far with this current research, I hope to hear back from the professor and his team to learn more and if I can join there team and help them continue doing there own research.

Best,

Brendan Gast