August 1:

Today Dr. Knisley continued his lecture on Learning and Intelligence. He showed us how to "fold RNA" on http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/RNA. He also took us to http://monod.nyu.edu/rna/rna.php so that we could view all math trees with certain amounts of vertices (i.e. 9, which is what we mostly looked at in class). It was all pretty cool. Before lecture was over, Dr. Knisley assigned homework involving Maple. After lecture and lunch, we got to go to lab with Susan. We used E. Coli to make cultures in Petri dishes that we will be looking at tomorrow. We also took a Petri dish and put our fingertips in it. Some of those will be interesting to see tomorrow!