It's only the 8th of January BUT I'm already back in the lab (Day 2!) - tidying up my lab book entries from last year (I'm up to the 20/12... so very close!) and setting up some experiments for later on this week. Tomorrow I have our Summer scholarship student coming in to start her 'project'. It's a bit strange actually teaching someone else how to do things in the lab. I'm not entirely certain that I'm a great or even good teacher and half the time I still feel like I have NO idea what I'm doing in the lab... yet now I'm in a position of seniority! It's a scary thought!
Not that I haven't learnt a lot in the past year... I've had some definite highlights including winning an ASBMB Poster Prize @ Combio, having a paper published with my name on it (yay!) and swanning around Queenstown on the pretense of 'conferencing' @ ANZBMS. I've also learnt some hard lessons - backing up computer files is VERY VERY VERY VERY important... & nothing is EVER as simple as it seems!!
Today I've had a pretty frustrating day actually... I seem to be missing some of my data from last year - I'm assuming i must of lost it when my laptop hard drive crash late last year (and me without my backups!), but I'd assume that I'd have some record of it somewhere... BUT apparently NOT! It's extremely disappointing as it was the best quality data I had for my Alanine Threshold data set - so now I'll have to calculate my AUCs with out it.
Though there is some good news - my site directed mutagensis seems to have colonies... I'm testing 6 colonies tomorrow! Fingers crossed that I've got what I need.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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