P.C. Shannon

For my third rotation, I am in Alan Lambowitz’s lab working on the group II intron stuff. It’s nice to be finally doing, you know, actual molecular biology after more than six months in grad school. I’d kinda forgotten how much I enjoy pipetting DNA and setting up reactions. Maybe the novelty will wear off before too long. The biggest complication at this point is that the post-doc with whom I was assigned to work went home to the Czech Republic for two weeks. That was four weeks ago. When he tried to come back, his papers weren’t in order or something and they sent him back to Prague. I’ve heard horror stories about Chinese students being stuck out of the country for four months. Welcome to Bush’s America. So it goes. In the meantime, I’ll do my best to get by without the post-doc and vote Democrat.