Jul 29, 2006
Pierce Biotechnology - Eggcellent Chicken IgY Purification K
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Wireless prevails once more! Another end to a busy week at the lab. This week has been dedicated to the nuturing and sampling of bacterial batch cultures happily growing away in the 37 degree incubators. The creatures grow, but in fashions most strange.
The lab life is pretty hectic when you got several experiments running in parallel with most of them time dependent - in the heat we've been having up here the sterile work is a pain, demanding much fire to torch the insidious air. Can't let the microbes in, can't let the microbes out, it's a very odd affair.
Anyway, here are some pictures for your general amusement, I'll try to compile a reasonably interesting album on my multiply site later...
The only way into the town of Juelich, a gas powered, independently owned rail service that Deutsche Bahn grudgingly accomodates on a grass covered ridge of its Dueren station. We ride the line to the Research Centre every morning, fairly decent service but with a touch of the arbitrary about it.
The Hexenturm (Witch Tower or something of that sort). Bombed out during the war, the main gate still stands. On the left, an art gallery has emerged and on the right a guesthouse. The inside is quite interesting, little niches with narrow windows decorate the walls, probably where the Dread Witches of Julicum hurled spells at the invading forces of the day.
Pancakes. Cooking is a little side project of this internship experience. No fast food junkie am I! The pancakes of course, hardly describe the breadth of the culinary experimentation happening. Muahaha.
Must dash, the kangaroo's out again.
The lab life is pretty hectic when you got several experiments running in parallel with most of them time dependent - in the heat we've been having up here the sterile work is a pain, demanding much fire to torch the insidious air. Can't let the microbes in, can't let the microbes out, it's a very odd affair.
Anyway, here are some pictures for your general amusement, I'll try to compile a reasonably interesting album on my multiply site later...
The only way into the town of Juelich, a gas powered, independently owned rail service that Deutsche Bahn grudgingly accomodates on a grass covered ridge of its Dueren station. We ride the line to the Research Centre every morning, fairly decent service but with a touch of the arbitrary about it.
The Hexenturm (Witch Tower or something of that sort). Bombed out during the war, the main gate still stands. On the left, an art gallery has emerged and on the right a guesthouse. The inside is quite interesting, little niches with narrow windows decorate the walls, probably where the Dread Witches of Julicum hurled spells at the invading forces of the day.
Pancakes. Cooking is a little side project of this internship experience. No fast food junkie am I! The pancakes of course, hardly describe the breadth of the culinary experimentation happening. Muahaha.Must dash, the kangaroo's out again.
Jul 18, 2006
Interning
Greetings wonderful world of the outside! Yes, it has been a great while and today I get a chance to post (since all our Pseudomonas and DH5a E. coli strains refuse to grow so we can lyse them and take their DNA) despite the evil German layout kezboard in front of me.
Right now I´m interning in the Research Centre of Jülich, where I´ve become temporary staff of the Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology - pretty funky eh? even got the security card to get by the grim looking gate guards and avoid questioning. I suppose when you´ve got genetically modified human pathogens in stock (let alone the insane equipment the Plasma Physics buildings are full of) one needs grim looks. That´s largely the reason why no pictures of the Centre shall ever appear on the web2.0, I apparently signed an agreement swearing me to secrecy concerning the wheelings and dealings of this place.
Something is fishy, we´re outside the city with forests all around and only 1 road in, what appears to be an uranium enrichment research facility is just a few hundred meters down right before we pass the military base on the way home. Creepy.
Currently the apartment I´m in is a small affair but livable with cross ventilation! The kitchenette allows much experimentation on the weekends since, so far, there´s been little to do thanks to the heat. I hate electric stoves. Anyway, the daily grind is quite a drain and I usually plonk utterly after the end of the day here. Could either be the fatigue or the effects of the chemicals.
I´ll see what I can do about photos, at least I might be able to show the world a few of this little outcrop of civilization.
Ciao for now...
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