After several weeks of work, I finally wrapped up my E. coli transformation experiment. The goal was to test how environmental stress, including high salt concentration, nutrient limitation, and low pH, would affect transformation efficiency using the pGREEN plasmid. This plasmid contains both a gene for ampicillin resistance and one for GFP, which causes the […]

Blog Post: What I Learned from My AP Research Project For my AP Research project, I studied how machine learning can be used to predict solubility in mixtures of salts and solvents -an introduction to computational chemistry for me. I wanted to make chemistry more accessible using simple models and free data. I built and […]

This week, I finished two more of the eight total sections of my AI guide deliverable.  My current plan for my AI guide is for it to have an intro section, including general information about self-publishing and AI’s use in it; a main section with six subsections detailing specific AI use at major self-publishing steps; […]

Hi, my name is Jiashu. Welcome to my final Senior Project blog post! This week, I focused on finalizing and editing the research paper and began creating the presentation for my final defense. Key activities included: Paper Refinement – Polished each section for clarity, tightened the narrative flow, and ensured all figures and tables were […]