First day on the job! Come at me science.

Seven hours, five coffees and a two inch high stack of scientific papers later, I've completed my first day at The Campus for Ageing and Vitality =D
It was no mean feat reading through, assimilating and annotating almost 14 papers, representing the best part of a decades worth of primary research into autophagys regulation, mechanisms and relationships to health and disease. I've certainly come out of it with a better understanding of why my research is necessary and how I'm going to go about conducting my work. But needless to say I spent most of the afternoon in bed resting up. I'm all scienced-out (-.-) Zzzz

A little bit of homework to be getting on with.

The campus is a brand new development evidently in the throws of establishing itself. A handfull of researchers and other academics have set up shop in the brand new kitted-out labs and are busily science-ing day and night, and more equipment and staff seem set to arrive over the summer in what will become a major research hub.  My first day consisted mainly of admin and getting acquainted with my surroundings, but I got to see some of the kit I'll be playing with over the coming weeks and tomorrow I should be throwing on the white coat and shadowing some researchers in the lab, hopefully whilst doing some wet-work of my own!

A confocal microscope; I'll be trained in its use tomorrow. The device is used to produce images like the cells seen in my previous posts.

It's all very exciting stuff. But for now, I best hit the hay (again) so I'm not falling asleep in my petri-dishes tomorrow!

And on that note:

If it's good enough for Neil Patrick Harris, it's good enough for me.