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Monthly Meetings for Research Associates

This year, we started having monthly meetings for Research Associates to share better practices.  The first one was very helpful.  We all shared what we were currently working on and talked about any improvements we had made to methods.  Levetta and UnJu also offered advice on goal setting and company practices.  We concluded our meeting [...]

Cereal Foods Workshop

Last week, I participated in a 2 day cereal foods workshop and was able to meet people from different departments and areas.  The first day was focused more on presentations and the second day was focused on group work.  My presentation was part of the technical portion on the first day.  Listening to the other [...]

The Holidays are Here

Novozymes is full of holiday spirit.  We have a Christmas tree in the Customer Solutions area that we all get to bring in ornaments to decorate and the marketing group has stockings hanging outside their office doors.  There is also an Angel tree in the cafeteria that already has a few present under it.  The picture [...]

More gels

The past few weeks I have been continuing to run native-PAGE.  The concentrations of the individual proteins in my samples are very different so I have had to run several gels with different concentrations of total protein to obtain good resolution of all the individual proteins.  For example, the gel with the best resolution of [...]

Switching Focus

The project I was working on looking at bread dough stability has been put on hold for a bit.  Now I’m looking at the effect of various conditions (temperature, incubation time, etc.) on one of the company’s enzymes with the ultimate goal of developing a dosing grid for customer use.  I’m a little bit sad [...]

Working on a Side Project

I’ve been working one day per week for the past month now.  I will probably only be updating my blog once every month now instead of every two weeks since I won’t have as much to talk about.
One nice thing about working one day per week is that when I order supplies they are here [...]

Final Presentations and Beach Party

We gave our final presentations last Friday.  It was very interesting hearing about what everyone had been working on all summer.  After the presentations, we had a beach themed party.  We got to wear flip-flops and eat summer cookout foods like hamburgers, hot dogs, and macaroni and cheese.  There was a picture of the beach [...]

Career Preparation

Last Wednesday, Darlene, Jennifer, and Melanie-Lark held a very helpful career preparation workshop for us.  They talked about what to include on your resume, how to prepare for an interview, and how to use LinkedIn.  They also went into detail about the recruitment process at Novozymes, which I was extremely impressed with.  The process is [...]

SDS-PAGE and Wonderful People

I’ve started running SDS-PAGE to look at the breakdown of flour proteins over time and the effect of various dough components on breakdown.  So far, the gels are turning out well.  Unju had some 8-16% Tris-Glycine gels leftover from one of her experiments that she let me use to test the method.  I was able to see [...]

Zymers Outside of Novozymes

Last weekend I participated in Race for the Cure with a team from Novozymes.  It was nice to get together with everyone outside of work and meet some more people.  Lindsay, Christie, and Kate did a great job of organizing the team.  They held a bake sale with lots of delicious treats the week before [...]