Student Research at Duke

So I thought I’d finally add some pictures, now that the uploading is working for me! Although this most recent blog should deal with scientific ethics, I missed 2 of the 3 ethics programs while I was working in the lab…I promise I’ll do the ethics blog soon! In the meantime, like my grad student Katie told me, I’ll blog about the greatness of being in lab until 10pm! This is my lab bench, which I just cleaned today…

These are the stacks of media that take up an obscene amount of my time…and to the left is the worst contraption ever, the “pour boy” media pourer that honestly has ruined several of my afternoons. It has these tube sections that probably haven’t been replaced in at least 5 years that don’t work effectively whatsoever–in fact, one has a sticker saying “I’m old but I work,” and under this someone has written “at Wal-mart.” Amusing, and indicative of its frustratingly sporadic functionality. We have to hit it with heavy scissors when it stalls, and a media backup literally exploded all over the bench last Monday, making me miss Katie’s presentation on neural control on innate immunity.

This is my lab after celebrating a post-doc, Devin’s, birthday…Katie brought delicious cake, and we returned to our work much happier than usual.

And here are two pictures of me working at the lab…

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