Happy CauseScience Friday everyone! Although today is supposed to be unlucky (Friday the 13th, eek!), things seem to be going well experimentally for us! Crestwind24– I am doing a little bit of lab work today, but mostly I am mostly … Continue reading
Happy Friday (or should we say, Fri-YAY) from CauseScience! psgurel– Today I am miniprepping! If you remember last week, I was doing PCR to get a specific DNA construct. After doing PCR, there are several steps before you have nice clean … Continue reading
pgurel– Despite being Friday the 13th, things seem to be going alright for me in lab so far. Today, I am doing PCR (polymerase chain reaction) to create a new DNA construct that I will eventually use to express and purify protein. … Continue reading
Both of us at CauseScience have been extremely busy lately… so busy that we haven’t had time for our CauseScience Friday posts! So today, we’ll give a little taste of what we’ve been up to lately: FIRST – TAKE THIS SURVEY … Continue reading
crestwind24– This morning I am shooting worms with lasers!! Or to be more specific, I am using a micropoint laser to ablate or kill a neuron in the C. elegans tail that I am studying (Video of micropoint laser to … Continue reading
We apologize for the long break in CauseScience Friday, but we are bringing it BACK! psgurel- Today I’m finishing up a cryo electron microscopy session (similar to what I’ve done before) trying to collect images of actin filaments decorated with a motor … Continue reading
crestwind24– Today I am doing a bunch of VERY serious molecular biology (as you can see from my picture)!! I am extracting DNA from C. elegans and genotyping them for a transgene that I hopefully added to their genome. In short, I performed … Continue reading
psgurel – I’ve just spent most of my morning in lab meeting, and will spend my afternoon going to a few lectures. Presenting work and getting feedback is a critical part of science. Lab meetings are somewhat more informal sessions where … Continue reading
crestwind24- I am spending part of my day processing images (micrographs) that I took earlier on our labs confocal microscope. As I mentioned in a previous CauseScience Friday, the confocal allows me to take amazing pictures of neurons and their axons … Continue reading
crestwind24– Today I am at an all day meeting in NYC, the New York Area Worm Meeting! Basically, the meeting consists of discussions and presentations from labs that study C. elegans in New York City and the surrounding area! Very excited … Continue reading
