Monday, October 15, 2007

Moving along very nicely

I've now been to two lab meetings and had two private meetings with U. It looks like I'll be picking up where her former student left off, doing the in situ hybridization of vole brain slices. I read the protocols over the weekend and it looks like 50/50 stuff-I-understand and stuff-I-don't. Hopefully that's a good ratio.

This week I'm going to meet with Se, one of her graduate students, who will teach me how to make slices in the CryoStat. U said she'd meet with me before that to harvest some male brains for me to slice.

The project is moving along nicely. My only problem right now is that I'm squeemish about killing the animals.

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