And so it Begins

A momentous day for the Baker lab. My first piece of equipment arrived!. The euphoria quickly died. Page one of the instruction manual:

'To set up the patch clamp amplifier requires 5 steps:
Step 1 is described on page 6
Step 2 is described on page 9
Step 3 is described on page 14
Step 4 is described on page 12
Step 5 is described on page 10'

What? Oh boy. So do I skip to page 14 after page 9? Step 5 is titled "Verifying and Testing". I can see why that section is written before the "Installing the Calibration files" which is step 3. I can do this. Oh, how I miss my friends at Yale. I blame the Germans. You know who you are, and you know you are guilty. The amplifier was made in Germany. So, I know it is good. And I'm pretty sure it is over my head, but no time like the present to learn.

The lab is nearly renovated. The walls are up. The heating units are being installed. It looks good. I am just worried that the space for people has been under-estimated.

Space for desks which will face the window. Might be a little cozy

Entrance to the lab where a meeting table will be

On paper it appeared as though the layout was perfect for a meeting table. Again, it is going to be a little cozy with six chairs around a two meter table. If the plan holds, we will have 22 chairs which will double the amount of chairs other labs with similar space will have. I would prefer 13 chairs so there is actually space for people. But whatever. This is a minor problem for the Baker/Cohen labs. Nothing can stop us now! Except for maybe page one of the instruction manual.