Seeing as a lot of us are working from home, self-isolating, or getting bombarded with rather depressing news, I thought I’d compile a list of previous posts that might tickle your fancy. For those that want to think about a career in research: Want to know whether you’re cut out […]
Some of you may have been following my posts regarding my second manuscript. I’ve been doing experiments this year to address the comments we got back from our reviewers, and it’s been a tedious endeavour but we’ve finally compiled everything (additional new text, new figures) and sent it back to […]
I posted about western blots and protein gels recently, but they’re actually more like a validation for some big experiments I did last week. These are the big experiments I was referring to in some previous posts. I needed some Coxiella strains that make different proteins for me (I’ve posted […]
I’ve written before about western blots (I’ve written an overview here), but as I was running what may become my last protein gel, I thought I’d just document it and write a lengthier post on them. So as I’ve written before, we use western blots to visualise proteins. I’m currently […]
One week left until the submission deadline for my Ph. D thesis! Thankfully I’m at the stage now where I’m just looking for spelling/grammatical/punctuation errors. All the major comments from both of my supervisors have been addressed, all my figures have been finalised… It’s a good place to be. So […]
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- […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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