"Hi, my name is Ingmar Bastian, I just finished my first year at University of California,
San Diego, and I'm a summer student, research internship student here at UCSF, and I'm working
with Rob Jetson.
I mean I'm working mostly with melanoma right now, which I think is very, very interesting.
Genome editing is fascinating to me that we can have templates for proteins that will
go into a cell and actually cut something out, and then we can put in what we want so
we can replace some gene that we wanna knock out with another gene that will, you know,
be a driving mutation for cancer, I think that's, it's absolutely fascinating what we
can do.
And this week I actually, I actually I'm in the tissue culture room a little bit now,
so I have my own cells that I'm working with, taking care of, and then I'm on my computer
a lot analyzing the DNA sequences that we send out.
I mean at everyday it's something new, so, yeah.
What's cool is that, it's like sort of a melanoma based lab, but everyone's kinda doing their
own thing, but, in a way they do tie together and so what the person on the bench next door
is doing can potentially help you, which I think is great.
Speaker 2: Brown 'em up?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yup, you can also try pumping it up and down.
Speaker 1: You have to have an open mind for a lot of these things it's, you sorta have
to come up with an idea, a plan, yourself, and that sort of, your, your plan will be
what you're gonna be doing research on.
It's your idea for the next month, year, however long it takes, and so you have to like, finding
something original.
We're doing, I think, at least the literature says, no one has tried this before.
Which I think is absolutely fascinating.
Especially if it ends up working out.
I ride my bike here, actually, from Burn County.
So over the Golden Gate bridge everyday, so I like biking a lot.
I like playing soccer, swimming, so yeah, I'm, I'm very into sports.
So I've always been interested in science from a young age.
I come from a pretty science oriented family, my, my dad's a professor here at UCSF, and
my mom's a vet in Burn County.
So you can imagine the dinner table conversations were always about science, and mathematics
and whatnot.
I'm actually very interested in the MD Ph.D program.
That basically means that you are a physician, but you also have a Ph.D, so I think the coolest
thing is that you can have a lab, or be in a lab, and actually be working towards building
a, or creating a medicine or treatment for some sort of cancer disease.
And then you can also see the patients that are receiving the drug that you have created,
so I think that's fascinating, being on both, very rewarding being on both ends of the spectrum.
It's daunting because it is eight years, but having that connection to the lab, I think,
will be the most rewarding.
Like I said before when you're creating a drug, or treatment, and then you can apply
it, I think that's the most rewarding tying something together like that."