I walk into the IQ Bio room and find evidence of my cohort scattered about. Ten of us, unfamiliar only 9 weeks ago, share this room on the second floor of the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building (JSCBB) at CU Boulder. First, I find Karl's coffee mug at the closest position of the table for quick access. Kathleen's smoothie maker is in the corner of the room at one of the cubicles. Philip's handwriting on the whiteboard answers the question, "What does IQ mean to you? "Intriguing Queen", "Illustrious Quail", "Illuminating Quip", "I'm Qrying". I add, "Iguana Quest" and smile at the word game. The infinity puzzle, given to us by our science communications lecturer, is already complete at the end of the central table. The jargon jar sits empty nearby even though it should be full of dollars for all the times we have used discipline-specific jargon when trying to communicate with one another over the last few weeks.
Yesterday, we all presented on our first rotation projects. Faculty mentors, lab mates, and older IQ students filled the room in support. We each had 10 minutes to share the details of 7 weeks of lab work. Projects ranged widely and made for an interesting 2.5 hours- simulations of partial differential equations that describe diffusion, diverging sunflower types on sand dunes, genetic engineering of fluorescent proteins for neurobiology, methods for compressing large datasets, like human genome data, into manageable sizes. The group was impressive and the power of mentorship filled me with awe once again. As we left the presentations, most of us headed off to meetings with new rotation advisors, starting again the 7-week cycle of learning a whole new field of study. In addition to research, we are all taking gap-filling courses. Generally this means that if you have a computer science background and less biology, you take molecular biology. Or, if you have a biology background, you take a computer science course. Six of us are in an undergraduate level Data Structures course, learning about stacks, queues, and trees for the first time in a language called C++. Learning this language plus the required Optical Imaging course that includes image analysis in MATLAB result in the most hours I have ever spent behind a computer screen. But at least we now know how to write a program that will say "hello world!" like in the movies. If you're thinking about tuning in to this blog, you should expect to find weekly updates on the IQ Biology program, 2018 cohort, and adventures in Boulder. You can expect guest blogs from other IQ students and a random smattering of thoughts regarding graduate school, academia, cool science, and more. Please leave a comment if you have questions you'd like to see answered, and I hope you enjoy learning about the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology program at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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