Die Assembloide sind rund, dicht, stabil – und bereit für die nächsten Analysen. Solche Momente machen Forschungsalltag besonders: wenn etwas Neues klappt, und man spürt, dass sich die Mühe gelohnt hat. #Organoide #Assembloids #CancerResearch #Neuroonkologie #LabLife

Watching my system.
It's an older model which cannot be controlled with a computer program, so you have to operate it manually.
#lablife #biochemistry #microbiology #PhDlife #PhDstudent

Heute Nachmittag stand wieder monotone, aber wichtige Laborarbeit an: Ich habe 500 Organoide neu ausgesät. 🧠🧫 Dafür mussten erst die Platten gereinigt werden – ich teste gerade, ob wir sie recyceln können (eine tolle Idee von meiner Kollegin @vanessaarnold.bsky.social 💡). #LabLife #Nachhaltigkeit

Meine Mama fragt mich regelmäßig: „Findest du deine Arbeit nicht total langweilig? Immer dieses Pipettieren, Zentrifugieren, Abnehmen, Resuspendieren …“ 🧪😅 Und ja – es wäre langweilig, wenn ich nicht verstehen würde, was da passiert. #RealScientistsDE #LabLife

Nach einer kurzen Kaffeepause draußen ☕🌿 geht’s zurück in die Zellkultur. Dort gibt’s übrigens keine Fenster – und das bedeutet auch: 🕰 Zeitgefühl? Fehlanzeige. Zwischen Inkubator, Bench & Mikroskop verfliegt der Tag oft schneller, als man denkt. #LabLife #RealScientistsDE

Unser Laboralltag ist auf Zellkultur fokussiert – aber wenn ihr denkt, wir sitzen nur still am Tisch: Fehlanzeige! 🧪💨 Zwischen Bench, Zentrifuge, Inkubator, Mikroskop, Kühlschrank und Freezer sind wir ständig in Bewegung. Langweilig wird’s dabei ganz sicher nicht. 😉 #LabLife #Zellkultur

Mein Tag im Labor läuft oft ohne echte Pause – weil viele Arbeitsschritte zeitkritisch & präzise sein müssen. 🧪 Heute: neue Ko-Kulturen mit primären Makrophagen – gemeinsam mit meinen Kolleg:innen. #RealScientistsDE #LabLife

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Wissenschaft kann fordernd sein – manchmal auch einsam. Aber im richtigen Team wird daraus eine Gemeinschaft. Ob Lab-Meetings, Kuchenpausen oder Geburtstagssongs – all das gehört für mich genauso zum Forschungsalltag wie Zellkultur & Paper schreiben. #LabLife #ForschungMitMenschen

Nice to know my entire week was a waste in the lab by taking my NMRs Friday afternoon. I should have held off until Monday...

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I think adapters exist to stack a thermo scientific incubator & a vwr one. Does anyone have a part number and/or a better search term? We want the thermo on the bottom since it's water jacketed if that matters (the vwr is apparently the only air jacketed one).

Might be relevant: the thermo is a Forma series 3, the vwr doesn't have a model name on it (though based on the stickers on the side it was purchased in 2021, model VWR51014991)

#LabLife #Biology #TissueCulture

The problem with refilling a water jacketed incubator is not having any idea how full it is while you're filling. Maybe it needs 5 minutes! Maybe it needs 30! Maybe you flood the TC room when it over flows!

(if someone knows a secret gauge that's standard on incubators, please, please, please, tell me where it is)

#LabLife

#lablife #retirement
This is what 1500 samples of frozen glycerol stocks of plasmid-containing bacteria look like going into autoclave bags. I'm reducing the collection from ~8000 to the most essential ~600 for saving. The lab is slowly clearing out as I send out reagents/notebooks to lab alumni, give away equipment, and throw out/recycle things no one will want. There is so much stuff after 36 years! On July 1, I am an Emeritus Professor.

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Attempted some "chemistry" this afternoon (hood still isn't up, waiting on the shelves so those can go in before the really expensive glassware gets in the way).

Minor problems:
I have a variety of writing implements in the lab with specific purposes and I can't find my mechanical pencil (regular pencil & solvent resistant pen yes, mechanical pencil no)

at least 1/2 of the TLC stains look like they have to be remade (the KMnO4 was gross, some of them I basically ran empty before moving, the ninhydrin got some weird solid crust on the cap threads, etc)

I might need to remake every mixture I have with ammonium hydroxide in it (could depend on the bottle)

the single outside handle on the double doors under the hood is really obnoxious since I'm not locking that cabinet (there is an internal handle to open the second door) and I maybe want to find something to act as an external handle for the second door (giant magnet? might not be possible, the piston arms on the doors are really heavy)

swapping the shelf nearest the combiflash for a wider one that didn't have a light mounted underneath means the collection area is weirdly dark (I think only the narrower shelves have lights though and I needed the deeper shelf to fit the racks)

1/?

#LabLife

Things I have done today (as legit parts of my job):
helped sweep & mop a really disgusting floor
mopped up the mess after we tipped over the bucket of dirty water onto the floor of another room
walked a cart across part of campus
walked the same cart back with a 20 L can of ethanol
met with a person from the machine shop to discuss repurposing some fancy incubator shelves
walked a second incubator shelf across part of campus, then back when the machine shop was already closed for the day
crawled around on the floor for 1-2 h while threading tubing through weird gaps in paneling and then fitting pipe insulation around the tubing (also splicing some tubing together because I didn't have two long pieces of the right type, and then having to trim ends anyway)

(there are probably more things, but I was doing the cleaning first with a grad student and turned to her and went "yeah, this is what it means to have a PhD")

#LabLife

Wait! To export something from PowerPoint at 300 DPI I have to do a change to the windows registry?!!?

I knew that #msoffice really sucks, but this is taking it to a whole new fucking level.

I usually stay out of their ecosystem, but collaborators...

#fuckMicrosoft #microsoftOfficeSucks
#usabilityfailure #fail #lablife

Because #ScienceIsInternational, it means that #LabSnacksAreInternational. Some maple syrup treats from Quebec on the menu for today…
#LabLife

#teaching at an uni:
yesterday we had a power outage in the lab during a practical course. We checked everything twice, called supervisors, called an electrician. Then I noticed that one of the students had put a cable on a heating plate and it melted 🫠
They had the nerve to ask if that meant we wouldn't finish on time.
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#PhDlife #PhDstudent #lablife #academia