Science Update

I've been a posting slacker again but I've had an eventful two weeks lab/science-wise so that's kept me pretty busy.

Last week, I did a ton of experiments. My transgenic mice haven't really been cooperating for the past few months (see Mendel was wrong post). However, last week 7 out of 9 of my mice had the genes I need. The odds are 1 in 4 so Mendel was wrong, again, but at least it was in my favor this time! The electrophys was also going really well so I got a lot of nice recordings.

This past week, I've been analyzing data and processing tissue. I had filled the cells I was recording from so that I could see their morphology. A few of them came out very well and were beautiful. I'd post a picture of mine if I could but the scopes I was using this week didn't have cameras on them. (The pic above isn't mine. I think it's actually a hippocampal neuron.)

To top off the past two weeks, on Friday, I found out that I got my grant! This means, among other things, that I'll be in Stockholm through the summer of 2009. Also, I'll be in San Diego in November for the conference, where I hope to catch up with most of the Atlanta neuro crowd.