Hannah Goldstein

10/13/15
IR1/3/10GT
Objectives:

Continue research on UV induced repair gene damage

Continue research on repair gene damage causing melanoma
Read more experimental results
Read chapters and other research sent by enquiry letters
Send emails for advisor
Secure an advisor
Look up nearby conferences that are coming up and see how I can attend/ possibly
volunteer at

Journal:
For the past two weeks I have been research UV induced repair gene damage and how it
develops into melanoma. Because there are very few articles on my topic, I [plan on utilizing the
research experiments that I have found to corroborate with the information I do have from the
articles.
I emailed/ sent letters to 10 organizations/ groups. I have heard back by two. Fred
Hutcherson provided some sources and a list of researchers that I could possibly use for advisors.
The NIH was more helpful with their response. The NIH director of public affairs provided me
with 3 articles that pertained to my topic, the contact information for a NCI researcher who was
researching my topic, and 2 book chapters that I would be unable to obtain otherwise without
paying a fee. I have read 1 of the articles so far, and plan to do the rest in the next day or so.
Also, I began reading one of the chapters, and it has proven to be very beneficial. I have read and
annotated the first few pages of one of the books, and I plan on completed the rest of that chapter
and the next book within the next few days.

I am writing my request for an advisor letters now and I plan on completing that and
sending them out soon. So far, I only have only 1 possible choice for an advisor, so I plan on
conducting more research on researchers who are completing experiments/ professors who major
in this field.