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February 02, 2005

Fun in Rotations

Today I got to meet with my first rotation professor. We spent a while talking about basic stuff about the lab, then went into the projects that I'll be doing. It sounds like a lot of fun, mostly because I get to do both aspects - the computer stuff as well as the wet lab stuff.

I have virtually no significant wet lab experience. This means that although I know pretty much all the same theory as any normal biochemist, I couldn't tell you a thing about how exactly to go about doing it. The extent to my experience is essentially that I know how to measure stuff, I know how to mix stuff, and I know what much of the basic lab equipment is and how it works. Beyond that -- how much stuff to mix, what exactly to mix, and why you're mixing it... I have no idea. So, for the wet lab component to my rotation, I'm basically going to be doing whatever the technician in the lab tells me to do. For most students, this would be a real pain, but for me it will be immensely useful because finally I get to learn something about protein expression, constructs, cloning vectors, PCR, all that good stuff. Plus it seems like I'll get to do some fun chemistry, too. Maybe if I get to learn some techniques in this rotation I can be a little more independent in the next one... but I'm not counting on it.

The computer stuff is going to be pretty much completely independent, though. It'll be a new area for me - statistical potentials, a more statistics-based approach to calculating interaction energies than straight physical models. There I get to play around with a bunch of code, maybe write some of my own, and hopefully make a useful contribution to some ongoing projects in the lab. We'll see how it goes... I'm going to need to read a few papers for that and this blogging is keeping me from doing that ;)

All in all, sounds like it should be a fun experience. The lab seems really friendly and already a few people there know me. It's small enough for me to feel comfortable but big enough to know that there's probably someone who can help you out if you get stuck. Plus the professor is ready to help fairly often and is always interested in what's going on.

Posted by kgutwin at February 2, 2005 10:06 PM

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