Back in the Wet Lab!

I am now fully installed in the "wet" lab and running!:)

It's been 3 years and a couple of months since I've prepared solutions, agar plates, PCR, agarose gels, bacterial cultures, extracted plasmid DNA... and it felt so GOOD to do it all again! :) But.... it has its drawbacks... I had forgotten how tiring it can be, how time itself cannot be speeded up... quite the opposite, in the lab time is a precious variable:) You forget to drink water, to eat in the mid-morning and mid-afternoon, you stop going to the gym... well at least I walk around back and forth quite a lot hehe that must count as exercise because my legs complaint at the end of the day!

What an adventure... yet another:) to start up a lab, making various constructs that'll take months.. and then finally run the hypothesis-driven experiments! "What a feeling...!" lol Yeah, it's tough... I have to conjugate (this word has totally different meaning for me now) both theoretical work (lots of in silico simulations to do) and out-of-control lab work and... supervision of a student. Nonetheless, it's worth and would do it all again.

It's going to be a very long year... but hopefully productive, fun, exciting and challenging as always ;)

Work, work, work... there's more life beyond the rediscovery of pipetting and growing fluorescent bacteria!... but right now, my eppendorf tubes are taking over... There's so much to be done... before I can go back... home!...

And home... in this precise moment is bed! I need a good night of sleep!

Bye bye*