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Success!!!
My microarray worked and I have data! Woohoo!!! Science is one of those jobs where 90% of the time nothing works, but when that 10% comes along it's something to celebrate. I now have a list of genes that are important for the Francisella process I'm studying. I love modern technology.
I felt bad, though, because Dave's arrays didn't work and he's the one who was showing me what to do. He's been getting great results in his work recently so he was due for something not to work I guess.
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Because the research symposium was today, I didn't have much time to analyze my gene list because I had to get my poster printed and finished. Mickey and I had arts and crafts time gluing our panels onto poster board.
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Once my poster was done, it was off to the department seminar. Alan Sher, the researcher who we had at journal club yesterday, gave a lecture on the similarities and differences between the initial immune recognition to the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
After his talk, Dr. Sher had lunch with the first- and second-year graduate students. These interactions with noted microbiologists is one of my favorite parts of the graduate curriculum at Stanford. Today's lunch was particularly interesting because Dr. Sher works at the NIH rather than a university, so he gave us his insights into how to be a successful researcher at the government level and how to get grant funding.
Fellow M&I students reading over my poster
The whirlwind day continued by running over to the research symposium just in time to catch the first talk. There were eight talks total, three from my department. I was interested in seeing what the older grad students in my department are working on and what other research is going on at the medical school.
My favorite presentation was about the development of the lung in the fetus. The graduate student had mapped the branching of individual bronchioles by generating 3D imaging of these structures as they formed. The poster session followed the talks and I split my time looking at other people's work and standing by my poster and answering questions.
After the research symposium, I went to the BioMASS annual softball game. BioMASS is the graduate student organization for the medical school. They plan both academic and social events throughout the year.
The softball game is quite an interesting experience due to some interesting rule additions. A keg of beer is placed on second base, and in order to run past the base when on offense, you have to either drink a small cup of beer or wait five seconds. Not everyone plays in the game, some people just come and hang out and enjoy the free In N Out burgers. We don't keep score and we play until people get tired.
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Pat and Liz |
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| Me sporting the White Sox championship shirt. Go Sox! | |
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The day was capped off by sitting around at Masoud's house. None of us felt like going out and so we watched some TV and played foos ball. Amazingly, Lacey and I emerged victorious.
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