My Labonews

Today was the Sigma Aldrich Meeting at the Biocentre. After some initial starting problems, apparently the speaker and her companion got stuck in the traffic (so that's what they call it nowadays...) Anyhow, we learned a great deal about our library. For one thing, it is at the moment nearly 80% completed, with the finish projected at April 2007 and it costs 1.8 Million Dollars. Either we hope for Santa being very generous this year, or we find ourselves some labs to share the library, as we wil certainly not need the whole 200 Microlitres per shRNA contruct provided... Then there is also the possibility of sharing the data with Sigma, thereby reducing the price (by how much they wouldn't tell). So there will be some further negatioations needed, let's see what Prof. Moroni can get out of it...

In other news, I discarded most of my clones done so far, keeping just the best ones, and beginning again at the viral infection stage to see if we can reproduce our initial observations... I guess I'll find enough work the next months but that's certainly nothing to complain about...