again with the good news/bad news
Apr. 24th, 2007 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianFirst the bad news:
I scored well below the class average on the first o-chem exam. I didn't think I'd done that poorly, but I was wrong.
Next the good-then-bad news:
Today I found a mutant line containing multiple plants (means it's more likely to be genetic than random screwy development) with a no-stomata phenotype (rare, cool, and how we recently got a paper in Nature). They even have a good number of siblings (likely heterozygotes; where you get more mutants if your mutants aren't fertile). It's likely that this is another allele of Mute, which is a gene we already know about, and that allele could be fairly uninteresting or extremely cool depending on how the gene is screwed up. My first step: sequence the Mute gene in these putative mutants. But I so do not have time to do that!
My mighty response to the above:
I wrote email to PI saying ZOMG I am ded of teh busy and asking for help prioritizing (while also mentioning a couple of times that I really want to do the fun sequencing). Really I should've asked for help scaling back two quarters ago, but at least I finally did it.
Other mighty action:
Scanned "This Fair Gift" for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pameladean (and thus for Technopeasant festivities). The Acrobat OCR on the study-area computer wasn't working, though, so I don't have text quite yet. Tomorrow I have two things to try, at least one of which ought to work.
Reward for ruling:
Mint-flavored Newman-Os and milk. Yum.
Conspicuous by its absence:
Studying o-chem. La la.
I scored well below the class average on the first o-chem exam. I didn't think I'd done that poorly, but I was wrong.
Next the good-then-bad news:
Today I found a mutant line containing multiple plants (means it's more likely to be genetic than random screwy development) with a no-stomata phenotype (rare, cool, and how we recently got a paper in Nature). They even have a good number of siblings (likely heterozygotes; where you get more mutants if your mutants aren't fertile). It's likely that this is another allele of Mute, which is a gene we already know about, and that allele could be fairly uninteresting or extremely cool depending on how the gene is screwed up. My first step: sequence the Mute gene in these putative mutants. But I so do not have time to do that!
My mighty response to the above:
I wrote email to PI saying ZOMG I am ded of teh busy and asking for help prioritizing (while also mentioning a couple of times that I really want to do the fun sequencing). Really I should've asked for help scaling back two quarters ago, but at least I finally did it.
Other mighty action:
Scanned "This Fair Gift" for
pameladean (and thus for Technopeasant festivities). The Acrobat OCR on the study-area computer wasn't working, though, so I don't have text quite yet. Tomorrow I have two things to try, at least one of which ought to work.Reward for ruling:
Mint-flavored Newman-Os and milk. Yum.
Conspicuous by its absence:
Studying o-chem. La la.
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Date: 2007-04-25 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-25 05:54 am (UTC)Go you yay mutation girl!
La la la la o-chem indeed.