Week 5

Well, we're coming down to the wire here in terms of finishing up my experiments for my presentation at the Symposium as this, the penultimate week, wraps up.

The first few days, all I did was prep and run an experiment. Simple enough, as I've done it countless times before. I (in some cases we) split cells, treated cells, collected lysates, poured gels, loaded gels, ran gels, performed a western blot, treated the membrane, so on and so forth. This experiment finally left me with some usable data in terms of what I can put in my presentation.

Thursday, things got hectic. The data which was collected Wednesday needed to be followed up on by another set of experiments. This, along with the stages of two experiments that will be run in the next few days. This had several experiments occuring all on one day. I was on my feet almost constanly, finishing collecting lysates here, exposing film there, taking pictures of cells there... Certainly an eventful day.

Even though I'm staying late today, and possibly Monday and Tuesday, it's really going to be a rush for me to finish my presentation and experiments by Wednesday morning, but with luck (and Dr. Kridel's help) I should be able to manage it.