Well, this has been a long time coming, but to you, having somehow stumbled across this page – welcome to this corner of the internet! This page is essentially a place where I can talk about my thoughts after a few years in the field of Bacteriology as a research student. Part informative, part cathartic/stress […]
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General update
Where did February go?? January wasn’t too bad but February has been intense. Since my last official update, I’ve progressed through my cloning woes to get two of my plasmids, plasmid #8 and #9. Plasmid #2 is being a pain, so I haven’t got the green insert in yet. But- I did confirm that the […]
I’m still alive!
It’s been over two weeks since my last post, so I thought I’ll just write a short update just to say I’m still alive and trying to finish up with my thesis and such. I’ll post a longer update on the weekend! I also started trying to jog, as a way to unwind after a […]
No, not the beer
2020 has seriously been a weird year so far! First it’s been bushfires, and now it’s this weird, novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)… Aside from political issues, the world is seriously falling apart (*coughs ‘also climate change’*)! The institute I work at has recently been featured heavily on the news, as one of the labs within has […]
The clone woes (part 2)
Part 2 of the clone woes (as I’ve dubbed it) is the current update on what’s happening. Just as a reminder from part 1, I’m currently trying to clone three different plasmids. Due to some technical issues involving the restriction enzyme EcoRI, I’ve had to revise my strategy. I got the red insert from plasmid […]
Writing a Ph. D thesis
Ah, yes. The Ph. D thesis. It’s that thing that you have to write and submit, in order to be eligible to graduate and become a Doctor (but not the medical kind). I’ve spoken to quite a few people over the years about writing a thesis. The general consensus has been pretty negative, in that […]
Visualising DNA
So I posted the above meme on Twitter, and it got some good laughs. But while I was cutting my DNA bands after my DNA digestion (please see my previous post on this, but it’s step 5 of the cloning stage), it occurred to me that I could take a photo of what DNA actually […]
The clone woes
This piece is filled with cloning jargon! You have been warned! In a previous post, I explained my upcoming experiments in a bit of detail. Prepare for an update on how that’s all going! FYI highly recommend reading the previous post to make sense of this current one. I’m currently wandering around the cloning stage […]
Smoke and moths
So apparently the haze overnight got so bad that Melbourne had the most polluted air in the world! Hooray? I went for a short walk today to attend lab morning tea… I probably only walked 400 m total in the end, but by the time I got back, my throat and eyes felt so irritated. […]
Moth succession
It’s come to that latter phase of my Ph. D where I’m training others to take on my lab duties… and these include maintaining the moths that I’ve previously posted about. It’s a relief, but also kind of sad… I’ll no longer be the Moth Overlord, sought after from across the land to set up […]
Update on the smoke
I posted earlier today about the smokey haze blanketing the city, which has wafted across from all the bushfires raging across the south east coastline. I thought I’d also point out that this smoke has permeated through our building- not just in the office spaces but also inside the lab! Thankfully the majority of the […]
