In Your Honour - Week Three

Monday

I hand in my stupid research plan. I’m not sure I’ve done it correctly, but it’s done. PD gave me the go ahead.

Tuesday
Meeting day. PD requests someone draw him a picture of a fruit fly (an organism we study a lot) holding a coffee cup (it turns out caffeine does something to the flies that we find interesting). That’s right up my alley I think.

Wednesday
Oh wow! I get a sample. I run eagerly to the genetics building and carry back some baby flies frozen in liquid nitrogen. This means I have to take the stairs, which got a little boring.

Wow. A sample. I begin to do an RNA extraction and screw it up completely. I have learnt the value of buying an mp3 player as it helps subdue the boredom of waiting for an incubation.

Thursday
I did so much junk in the lab today. I did in situ preps for Henry. I did sequencing for Alex. And I did my own RNA extraction (again).

All these experiments involve 10 minute incubations or whatever so I was constantly running from one thing to the other with my eye on the time so I knew which one I had to run back to just as soon as I’d added 10 micro litres of….

My RNA extraction worked this time. Everyone was so happy for me.

Friday
I had a meeting with the Phils today. One of them didn’t realise it was on. We discussed the essay topic I was going to write about, and I wound up with something I was rather pleased about. I was also prepped for my committee meeting on Monday. Eeeeeeek.

PB loved his coffee drinking fly.