Week 2: Eleana

This week was an exciting week full of looking at pathological samples and learning new information. Allison and I started the week off with presenting our research to the Dr. Demaria and Dr. VanPouille-Box labs. It was a very long presentation, but we were able to share the research we do back in Ithaca with them and get their input on our work that we do, and the project proposal we have for them to work on this Summer. From the initial meetings, they approved our project and they thought that it will be exciting to work on. We spent the next few days working on protocol development, and figuring out what materials that we would need to start the project off. During the beginning of the week we also viewed a mice craniotomy where, mice were being implanted with glioblastoma and will then undergo radiation treatment. Thursday and Friday we then shadowed Dr. Demaria in the Breast Anatomical Pathology lab and got to sit in as they viewed cases and their slides to determine a diagnosis of the patient. We had a tour of the grossing lab and saw a lumpectomy being grossed by one of the residents. We were showed around the lab and saw the microtomy, and special stains room. Friday, we were in pathology again and viewed cases and later attended a grossing conference where residents had to identify what kind of tumor they had. Finally, on both days we attended conferences where the slides and cases are reevaluated in a group to get a consensus.