July 2009
3 posts
Fire Alarms all summer long.
Today started out like anyother day, woke up and went to work.
Since aynor taught me how to do gel purification i did help aynor with her gel extraction project. halfway running the gel the fire alarm rang and we had to evacuate and “CEASE ALL OPERATION AND EXIT THE BUILD” Calmly( by calm meaning slowly walking out not giving a crap about the fire existant or not) when were outsided...
I got a feeling..that tonight is going to be a...
so yesterday!..which was monday we had our first lab meeting. jackie and myself were pair with aynur to prefect out mini prep techniques to get higher concentrations.
i was actually pretty happy that we spent the time to go over the procedures in detail and not just what the next step was but why we did the step…i found my concentration went from the usually around high 90 to mid 100 ng/ul...
Free time at work?...NOT EVEN!
Today was harsh! started work about 8:30 to keep my notebook updated, then do some DNA purification, restriction digest, some more transformation cause some of the first ones didnt work, and some more mini preps. Overall a very busy day, I ate lunch in about 5 to 10 mins?
oh i met the new exchange student today, han si!? haha she seems like a fun person. she speaks mandarin! so i can pratice my...
June 2009
6 posts
Game Time
During the meeting on friday it finally hit me that we actually dont have that much time left. we need to make constructs, test if they work, and if they dont (which most likey the first time it wont) then we have to redo experiments…the stress of actual lab work is start to get real. im pretty confident i am up to the challenge and since there aint much lectures left and more hands on lab...
BLACK! TEAM! cause we so ninja
WHELP! so i was put in the BLACK team with Ryan Q., Katja, David, bethany(?) and iowa. i was pretty glad i was in this team cause i was always able to get along with David and Iowa. we had pretty simple straight foward ideas for braking and acceleration of a cell, but then had a kick ass idea for steering. haha we’ll present our stuff tomorrow on thursday. Hope it goes well!
BOOT CAMP OVER!
Its been about a week and a half and and we finally finshed our boot camp sessions of cell mobility. i was kinda surprised that we were able to integrate such a large ammount of information is such a short period of time. HAHA GUESS WE ARE REALLY THAT CRACKIN! well we finally finished out pre-project today and oliver genreally was pleased…i think…=p. the team chanllege is set for...
its Friday? ITS FINALLY FRIDAY!!! OH SWEET FRIDAY
FINALLY! the first friday is upon us!…..let us have a moment of silence to take in the the serenity…………….SILENCE OVER! this week was exhausting but if i take a look back at the whole week it was also worth the time. every hour spent at UCSF was full of intresting stories and facts…i have been dubed the sleeper since i always fall asleep during the lectures...
6/17- ICE CREAM CAKE!
Sooo halfway into the week i learned alot of intresting information from the lectures…i admit i doosed off once in a while, but i generally absrorbed most of the information. On another note! we started on our minipreps today for the clones we starrted in the pre-project as well ask started our own cultures of dicti cells. we had to spin and freeze our cell during a 5 mins break of the...
6/15 - First Day
Today was my first day at UCSF for the iGem program and we meet up with everyone at Mission Bay around 9 in the morning. Today was more like an oreientation for everyone to get to know eachother on the team, everyone seem pretty cool and fun to talk to. we had lectures all the way until around 1 then we had lunch, which was sooo much better than the school lunch at lincoln. so that was one of the...