It's incredible. You finish with one project, and the next set of experiments pops up. No time to blog, no time to read papers ... although there are several interesting ones: transcriptional regulation by an endogenous antisense RNA in yeast, ribosomes composed of slightly different subunits translate different messages, how the endoplasmic reticulum is inherited in yeast and how this act helps organize the septins, and this very complicated paper about the energetics of protein folding and how this relates to vesicular transport. If anyone has had the time to sift through these, please let me know what you think.
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Overworked (lazy) postdoc
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With people confined to their homes, there is more interest in home-baked bread than ever before. And that means a lot of people are making friends with yeast for the first time.
I don't know if any DIY biologists are looking for projects, but I think engineering yeast with a gene to detect heavy metals might be a good DIY biology project and I have some ideas for how to do this.
Alex- I know that you are busy in the lab, but could you answer a few questions for me?
1- How importnat is it to record data from my experiments and labs?
2- What kind of notebooks should I use?
3- Where should I buy a notebook? (The notebooks in the campus bookstore suck! I have searched on the internet and the only books that I like are the duplicator notebooks and those can get a little pricey.)
Thank you!
1- very important!
2- hand written old style or computer - it doesn't matter. As for computer there are some commercial software out there, or you can use a wiki if you are brave (in which case you should ask Pam Silver's or Jean-Claude Bradley's lab what they use.) You can even use MS Word - however figures and excel graphs don't interface well with Word. The husband of a colleague of mine was working on software for computer style notebooks - but I'm not sure how far he got before he had to switch.
3- If you opt for the old fashion method - anywhere you can find a regular notebook whose pages are large enough to accommodate gels, printouts etc. The books we use are from Avery Dennison (computational notebook 43-648 11 3/4" x 9 1/4")