Lab work

I've been working on getting a gene out of one plant and into another so we can see what it does and to get it in the other plant I have to change it a bit first. This is apparently a problem since the regular old methods don't want to work. As of now I'm just hammering at it and hoping it'll work eventually while testing along the way to make sure each step is doing what it's supposed to be doing. The controls are more or less working and the other gene that I pulled out to try at the same time is working, but the one that I actually have to get to work for my project isn't. grr.

Anyway, now that I've gotten to know the lab a bit better I realized that everyone that I thought was German actually isn't. Most of the lab is German, but (as I've been told recently) there's apparently Danish, Polish and Macedonian representation as well (1 lab member each).

Who knew?