When
I was young, I had the chance to watch a TV series, where there were a couple of
surgeons going around the country and volunteering to perform retina implant
surgery to those who are deprived and blind. Ever since then, my passion was
becoming a surgeon who can give hope and joy to people, just as those surgeons
did. And as I take more science laboratory classes I got more interested in the
research, especially for those relate to medical subjects. So when I was
introduced to the relationship between the Caspases and the neurodegenerative
diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, from the research in Dr. Honeychuck’s
lab, it was very interesting to me.
As
I mentioned above, as I am planning to prepare for the medical school, I expect
this research to benefit my understanding in many medical subjects.
For
the past couple months, I have been learning about several different
computational programs and molecular docking. I have collected quantitative
data for Caspase 3 and Caspase 7 from those programs, and I have prepared the
proper file formats for the proposed list of ligands and processed enzyme. And
this week, I started to analyze the collected data and the trend of their
binding to Caspase 3 enzymeactive site.
