Elizabeth’s BioBlog

     This past month has been full of setbacks. When we started moving to the new lab I thought it would be a two week project and everything would settle down. I was wrong…

    It’s been more than a month and still some things are still not set up. Moving a lab is a lot harder than I thought, especially when so many new things and adjustments have to be made. It’s been a month of cleaning, arranging, drilling, cleaning, rearranging, and drilling again, and so on. One of our freezers rebelled against us and stopped working (It has been brought back to obedience though) and at some point flies were escaping inside one of the incubators. Then, our Drosophila culture became infested with mites, so we had to quarantine more than 50 tubes of flies. But, I’m glad to say, everything is under control now.

It has been a fun and interesting process, but now I’m ready to fully start on my project, which I’m sure will be very soon. So, I have done a lot this past month, but have reached less than 10% of my objectives. I’ll be catching up soon enough!