Book 1: Settling into Life Day 3 (June 9, 2015)

So today in the morning, I was given more antibodies to catalog, and by the end, I had put in over 100 into the spreadsheet. Wow, I'm getting good at that task. It's like secretarial, but a working knowledge of antibodies is needed. So the fact that IgG is a type of antibody, and that mAb is a monoclonal antibody, which are usually with rabbits (or maybe it was mouse...oops, I forgot already), along with other things. I got pretty exhausted though and I knew it was pretty bad when I laughed at one antibody that was labeled "anti-Tim23"...

When I went to the break room for lunch, the tables were all full, so I went to the conference room and ate with my mentor. It was awkward as I was heating up my lunch because everyone looked at me, and I just stood there not even introducing myself, waiting for that one minute to go by as fast as it could.

In the afternoon, after some cubicle study time, I watched my mentor make a cell culture, maintain HeLa cells, and also saw some other HeLa cells that had GFPs in them under the fluorescence microscope, and that was super cool. I also watched him go through the transfection process, and that was pretty cool.

Antibody OCD: sorting the cataloged from the uncataloged.