I work at The Medical College of Wisconsin (http://www.mcw.edu/) in the Protein And Nucleic Acid Facility (http://www.biochem.mcw.edu/protein_facility/) in the biochemistry department. I have a Flickr photo set (http://www.flickr.com/photos/beigephotos/sets/74613/) with a bunch of semi-random photos.
Our lab provides services for the researchers at the college and, as they say, from around the world. Seriously, we have a regular protein sequencing customer in the Czech Republic.
We do protein sequencing to identify proteins. We make synthetic peptides, which are used for all sorts of experiments. We can separate complex mixture of proteins by 2-dimensional gels, or with gadgets like the Rotofor that I think you've heard me complain about. We have two mass spectrometers that we use primarily for protein identification. We sequence DNA. It's all the sort of thing most people only need to do occaisonally and which requires expensive equipment that's hard to use. People send their samples to us and let us deal with the expensive, unreliable toys.
I've worked in this one lab the whole time. The lab moved from the old building to the new one, my old boss quit and was replaced by a new one, and most of the old equipment is gone and replaced with newer, fancier stuff, but I'm still here.
By the way, my first boss, who I believe currently lives in La Jolla, California, grew up in West Berlin. And my current boss worked in Germany at one time and hasn't completely forgotten German, besides his native Arabic and fluent English.
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Date: 2006-01-26 05:08 pm (UTC)Our lab provides services for the researchers at the college and, as they say, from around the world. Seriously, we have a regular protein sequencing customer in the Czech Republic.
We do protein sequencing to identify proteins. We make synthetic peptides, which are used for all sorts of experiments. We can separate complex mixture of proteins by 2-dimensional gels, or with gadgets like the Rotofor that I think you've heard me complain about. We have two mass spectrometers that we use primarily for protein identification. We sequence DNA. It's all the sort of thing most people only need to do occaisonally and which requires expensive equipment that's hard to use. People send their samples to us and let us deal with the expensive, unreliable toys.
I've worked in this one lab the whole time. The lab moved from the old building to the new one, my old boss quit and was replaced by a new one, and most of the old equipment is gone and replaced with newer, fancier stuff, but I'm still here.
By the way, my first boss, who I believe currently lives in La Jolla, California, grew up in West Berlin. And my current boss worked in Germany at one time and hasn't completely forgotten German, besides his native Arabic and fluent English.