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jinianI had to present my research so far to the lab at our lab meeting today. (This also involved bringing cookies. Note: Primary Investigator doesn't like ginger cookies, but everyone else does.) Unfortunately I had to use Powerpoint -- not only did I, in one case, do exactly what its help file said to do with no result, but it changed the relative positions of graphics and text when in slideshow mode compared to "normal" mode! Argh!
However, I prevailed. The slides turned out very well for the most part. I forgot to italicize a couple of gene names, which was embarrassing because PI had just reminded me this morning, and I managed to say an entire gene was gone instead of only part of it (ha ha), but overall I think I talked pretty well. My on-the-fly fluency in molecular biology is still pretty low, so I had a few phrasing problems, but I didn't get actually stuck anywhere. Everyone was really nice and said it was a good presentation.
The funniest part was that I used a photo of Arabidopsis epidermal cells as a slide background for the title page, and people kept wanting to know who had taken it. It was pretty nice, but I had just thieved it from a web abstract and adjusted the color, I didn't know who had taken it! People were envious of how clear it was, so they wanted expert advice on getting theirs to look that great.
I'm still not sure about how much I can say about our unpublished projects outside the lab, but if it's okay I'll explain more about what I'm actually working on next time.
For now, I reward myself with video games!
However, I prevailed. The slides turned out very well for the most part. I forgot to italicize a couple of gene names, which was embarrassing because PI had just reminded me this morning, and I managed to say an entire gene was gone instead of only part of it (ha ha), but overall I think I talked pretty well. My on-the-fly fluency in molecular biology is still pretty low, so I had a few phrasing problems, but I didn't get actually stuck anywhere. Everyone was really nice and said it was a good presentation.
The funniest part was that I used a photo of Arabidopsis epidermal cells as a slide background for the title page, and people kept wanting to know who had taken it. It was pretty nice, but I had just thieved it from a web abstract and adjusted the color, I didn't know who had taken it! People were envious of how clear it was, so they wanted expert advice on getting theirs to look that great.
I'm still not sure about how much I can say about our unpublished projects outside the lab, but if it's okay I'll explain more about what I'm actually working on next time.
For now, I reward myself with video games!
