First Rotation
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I started my first rotation today. I am in Krish Roy’s lab in the biomedical engineering department. As expected, the first day was filled bureaucractic hoops (never try to get a key at UT) and many papers to read. For the time being, I am assisting with some tissue culture work. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on, so it’s overwhelming. I need to ask more questions, but that can be difficult on the first day. I don’t know how interested I am in the tissue culture work. I got put on it because that’s what the other biologist in the lab is doing, but believe it or not, I am actually more interested in the engineering side of things. That’s certainly where the cool stuff is happening — and the cool stuff is why I’m there.
Wedley on 5 November 2003 at 2:15 pm | Permalink
Tissue culture is the current bane of my existance… I used to be pretty good at culturing stuff w/o antibiotics back at UT but for some reason here I don’t seem able to go for more than two weeks without something contaminating with a fungus or bacteria…
I finally gave up and got a technician in our lab to keep a lineage of cells going so I have some to fall back on for when I f-up. I’m never going to get the prelim data I need before Thanksgiving at this rate…