Informative and path-changing is the best description I can think of for my first research experience outside of Puerto Rico. After a semesters’ worth of biotechnological research at the B 266 laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez Campus, I had the opportunity of working in a biomedical engineering research laboratory at Yale University this summer. The research project I worked in focused on testing nanoparticle drug delivery systems as a means to treat immunological disorders in vitro. I learned a variety of techniques, all of which greatly differ with what I do in my research project at Puerto Rico, but I had a great time and made new friends. I learned methods such as cell culture harvesting, solution chemistry, nanoparticle synthesis and characterization, antibody staining, and immunological assays, among others.  Overall, the research experience was great and I am very glad and ready to start to work back at B 266, Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology and Bioprospecting Research.