Science in the City

 
After getting a significant chunk of work done starting the seagrass barcoding effort, late-breaking developments have changed the course of our work to come.  The CBOL, an international body organizing the efforts of individual institutions, published results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggesting the use of a two-loci standard genetic [...]

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It’s the end of the Fellowship here in Australia, and time at last for me to get home to my bride and baby, who’ve been struggling along on their own back home.  It’s a time of change, and it is in such leave-taking moments that I’m mindful of how transient life is, how fast it [...]

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After hitting a bit of a down note on Tuesday, I spent most of Wednesday and Thursday tidying up affairs in and around the lab.  Unlike my work at the Chang lab in NYC, the space and materials at JCU were shared, and so a careful cost-accounting of my activities had to be undertaken, from [...]

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The follow-up to the successful first sequencing of the RpoB and RpoC loci on Monday has been a hurried attempt to get as many of the loose ends from the other genetic ’sites of interest’ processed as possible in the time I have remaining at JCU.  With the experience I got going through the first [...]

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 After hundreds of steps and five weeks of effort, today we anxiously awaited the results from the sequencing lab, which would be the final arbiter of the success or failure of our efforts so far.  As it was pointed out to me today, there are a number of things one has to do between the [...]

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