Weekend :)

Saturday is July 4th, US Independence Day. So, we get a day off for Friday, and the weekend has basically started today. But, I'm still thinking of what should I do for the long weekend...

This week, we have been doing DNA+vectors ligation and cell transformation, making genetically modified organisms basically. Sounds scary? Haha :D
Today, we just received the DNA data that we sent for sequencing 2 days ago. We get a few, sadly not all, accurately transformed plasmid vectors. But, that also means efforts we put on for the past few weeks were paid off :) Now, with the ready-to-use plasmids, we are ready to make genetic modified soy beans. Soy beans with a lot, yeah A LOT, of hairs! Huhu :P ~~

I found that my professor is really funny/weird in some ways that I have to share it here. What come to your mind when you think of the word "professor"? Old, lotz of grey hairs, serious, strict.... But, none of the words fits Dr. Finer, the PI of my lab.

In the lab, sometimes we have to do image alignments as part of our projects. The images were pictures of soy bean parts taken under UV lights to capture green fluorescence. Since the camera-robots could never take the pictures precisely, we have to use photoshop to edit them so that we can make a continuous video/movie based on the images. Back to Dr. Finer.... Today, he spent 8 hours doing image aligments on the computer. That was from the time we stepped into the lab until after we left. Actually, he already started the alignments yesterday. Seriously, can you imagine your boss doing photoshop in the lab the whole day, instead of writing grant proposal, reports or attending meetings? I felt like laughing whenever I saw him doing the photoshop, so serious yet very funny. And, by the way, there are only 2 computers in the lab. Since he was working with one of them, we had to take turn using the other one XD... and the other two interns didn't dare to play video game during the free time :P Dr Finer said that he just likes to do the mindless stuffs that require no thinking whatsoever -.-'' I just thinks that he is just funny. He totally earned "The Coolest Professor" Award!!

That's for now :) See ya!