You wanna bet? S&T's Isaac Deatherage reports from Taiwan
My research in Taiwan is becoming beyond entertaining! However, it wasn’t always so. For about two and a half weeks I have been overloaded with several experiments all at once—trying to find a suitable bacterial strain for protein expression, electrophoresis, etc. Usually, I’m in the lab from 8 a.m. to 6 or 7:30 p.m. and then go out for an amazing Chinese meal with my newfound lab friends!
Then, the other day I had a little competition between one of the experts in protein expression, whose name is Jia-wei. He thought that the bacteria should have an O.D. of 0.4, but my hypothesis was that 0.6 would result in more protein. So, we made a little bet. If his bacteria were inferior, he would have to drink all 500 ml of his; if mine were inferior, I would have to drink mine! So, to my amazement, I won! You see the picture of him guzzling down his flask of bacteria while some of my other lab mates observe in astonishment.
Oh, by the way, Jia-wei is way too smart to actually drink bacteria! LOL☺. He, Betty, Jheng-Fon, Wang, and Aten need special thanks! They have been above and beyond amazing at assisting me and teaching me mind-boggling loads of ideas. They and the rest of my lab mates are really great friends!
For your enjoyment I included some other random pics of things like a night photo of Dong Hua and the river Jamie and I jumped in off the water fall—that was way too much fun! I’ll post photos of all my lab mates later, but some of the pics were taken with another’s camera and I’ve not had the change to get them yet.
I hope all of you in the U.S. are having an awesome summer!
Isaac Deatherage