splitting cells

every wednesday is split cell day. yups, thats what i split every week. a whole panel of stably transfected cells. its maintained and not frozen down because when you thaw it, it takes a month or to to stabilize.


this is the amount of facs buffer the lab orders every month. took a pic because its alot, and because it was just outside my office door. of all places, got to put there...

Today in the LB broth of records...

Today, Anthony submitted his thesis...
and he decided to do something creative.


Presenting...
The Plaque Assay Triple Tower, totally made up of Anthony's collection of PA plates over his one year of honours.


The Plaque Assay Triple Tower, made up of God knows how many 24 well plates, spanning 2 storeys high, if stacked one on top of another. Osama is designing paper aeroplanes now.


Melvin and Anthony.


Anthony


The self acclaimed F4.

Yay.. I submitted by thesis today

sigh... all the plastics

Santa clauses are coming to Flavilab. Its still a bit too early for Christmas.

Ok, time to dump them away...

Microbiology Welcome Tea 2008

Welcome tea started off with a big bang....


Guess who is Austin Powers?


Its Justin! Quite cute... =P


Flavintage in action!!!

Justin's lab did a dance performance..

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This year, everybody wins for performance...

Ivan received the price for Justin's lab.

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Our lab got the best food stall for Welcome tea this year... Prof is just grinning ear to ear...

Somehow something tells me that Adrian is a very lucky guy... =P

The flavivirology group.

Welcome Tea Microbiology 2008 (preparation)

Deco for the seminar room this year, decorated by Sylvie's group.



We are in charge of desserts again this year.

Kim Long busily securing the strings to hold our signboard...


Flavintage. The name for our team this year.

Prof's delight... come eat... don't shy.

Pic before the welcome tea starts...

Final Practise

Final practise round just before the MicroB welcome T.
Our theme this year is "back to the 70s".





Flavintage in action!


Team flavilab posing for a shot.

Hey, check out our lab T-shirt. Designed by Lysshan and Shu Min. =)

Front

Back

Lysshan and Shu min and the pipette tip boxes

Today in the Luria bertani broth book of records...


Tallest tower of yellow tip boxes... created by two overly enthusiastic girls.

Then they realised that the sky is the limit....


Inserting the final piece to jam up every box from floor to ceiling.

LB book of records has another new entry... tallest filled tip box tower.

goofing around... =)

ok... time to autoclave the tips.

Practising for welcome T

MicroB welcome B is just round the corner.
our theme this year is 70's oldies.


Anthony is browsing though his uncle's song book for some fresh ideas...




trying out some new ... ahem.. old songs...

to be continued....

powderful england

These data reinforce the
growing awareness that noncoding RNAs are key players in
tumor development by placing miRNAs in a central role in
a well-known tumor-suppressor network. As another tumor
suppressor, Rb gene, there still never had published data
about miRNAs involving its downstream pathway.

In the searching of normal control for the Rb cases, the
situation we met in the study just like that in another mRNA
profiling study of Rb

Identification of miRNAs associated with tumorigenesis
of retinoblastoma by miRNA microarray analysis
Jian-Jun Zhao & Juhua Yang & Jianhong Lin & Nan Yao &
Yihua Zhu & Jianlong Zheng & Jianhua Xu &
Jin Q. Cheng & Jian-Yin Lin & Xu Ma

powderful england

These data reinforce the
growing awareness that noncoding RNAs are key players in
tumor development by placing miRNAs in a central role in
a well-known tumor-suppressor network. As another tumor
suppressor, Rb gene, there still never had published data
about miRNAs involving its downstream pathway.


Identification of miRNAs associated with tumorigenesis
of retinoblastoma by miRNA microarray analysis
Jian-Jun Zhao & Juhua Yang & Jianhong Lin & Nan Yao &
Yihua Zhu & Jianlong Zheng & Jianhua Xu &
Jin Q. Cheng & Jian-Yin Lin & Xu Ma

did you fart?

Q: did you fart?
A: no, i din fart

Bowling

Microbiology vs Immunology Bowling outing 2008.


we had a mini competition between the microbiology and the immuno group at clementi...
in other words, it is an official snake eating day for micro dept.
snake population was at its all time low... =(


posing for a shot


anthony and gang goofing around while queing up for their shoes.


Adrian keyed in our names for the game, while Anthony appeared overly fascinated with bowling balls...


Another Lab photo.


Prof is very happy the drain (longkang) is cleaner now. =P


Guess who?

Anyway, immuno won the competition... =P (overall)

mooncakes - invitrogen

ritz carlton leh, donch pray pray ah. but i really cant taste how atas it was anyway...