Tomorrow is the deadline, the office staff told me that the NIH grant application system has been a bit unstable, my brain is also a bit unstable because of sleep deprivation, so I made some agar plates to clear my mind, it seemed to help

#ThursdayThoughts

While running last-minute experiments to support my proposal, a student in a neighboring lab said he’d never seen me “doing science” before. I'm sure he meant “doing experiments,” but I do feel I'm “doing science” when I'm doing experiments, rather than working (on science) at a computer

Belated introduction after more than two years on Mastodon
While I post a lot about #Nature, #River, #FlyFishing and #IPA, I use the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe for my research. At some point, I plan to brew #Beer

Can we make pink beer if we use this yeast strain ???

The ade6 gene mutation causing red pigments for this color change in the fission yeast S. pombe

Did some yeast (S. pombe) tetrad dissection
It’s pretty meditating on Friday night after Happy Hour
Hoping to get some nice results

Making some agar growth medium for facilitating fission yeast mating
They have two mating types: h- and h+
Malt extract in the medium
Fission yeast - Schizosaccharomyces pombe

I just made a successful pollination for our pumpkin (I think), now fission yeast’s turn