Week 9 - Nowhere Near Done

With week ten right around the corner this week has been busy with tying up the loose ends, giving a presentation, finalizing my materials in a manner that is easy to hand over to my mentors, writing my final paper, and working on a few last minute ideas.

 

With some of my mentors gone, it has been entirely up to me to run experiments, look at the data, and determine the most appropriate next steps.  I was able to apply a sonication treatment (the act of applying sound energy to agitate particles in a sample) early this week and run PCA on this data.  Unfortunately, this did not provide any insight into being able to recognize the sonication treatment through the application of PCA.

 

After presenting my past couple weeks of work at a lab meeting on Wednesday there was some discussion about where to go from here.  The idea of a global PCA was discussed as well as a few other ideas that I have recently been looking into and intend to employ before my final day here at CMOP.  Clearly I have plenty to do on top of writing my paper and submitting a final presentation.