My Research with Zebrafish!
My first few days with Dr. Bagnat's team of grad students and post-docs have been difficult but promising. My mentors there are among some of the most patient people I have ever met. Coming in contact with some very impressive equipments was exciting--expecially the beast that is the negative-81-degree-C freezer used to store compounds for long periods of time. There is a large fish room for breeding as well. Tanks are stacked to the ceiling and leave very little room for maneuvering. I got to watch fish mate (that's right!) and see how egg collection worked. Things have been a bit slow because it is the first week. It's a good feeling to be able to help out in any small way. It's fun to listen to the grads and techs talk about their work or what they want to do in a few years or just this weekend. I found out how to pronounce my PI's name (it's French) and that was a plus! Hopefully, next week will be better once we figure out how to use databases to map genes--come on, technology!
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me at a station
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my desk
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PCR machine
