My Lab

Helloooooo. I've started to do experiments already. Did my first tissue culture last thursday, using lungs of rat fetuses. The mother rats were put to sleep first, then killed using high doses of CO2. Their fetuses were then removed, and lungs were taken out. Often the lungs are attached to the heart and liver, so its rather hard to identify which is which. The reason being... They are wayyyyy too tiny. In future if there's a chance, i may be able to take some photos and let you see.

Anyway after the first culture on thursday, i need to change media (to replenish nutrients) the following day and 2 days after. So i changed the first time on fri, and today. And bcos its a sunday, i managed to take some photos! Luckily the PhD student of my supervisor was also enthu about taking photos, or else i dont think i will succeed in doing so. Haha. So here are some photos of my lab (actually my supervisor's):

Main building my lab is located in: biological sciences

Tissue culture lab
As you know, murdoch is a rather old school.. And considering how long my supervisor had been in the school and involved in research, you can expect the lab to be not-new... But the heater is new! The white thing at the left bottom corner of the photo. Haha. Our fan heaters in the hostel will all be changed to this kind soon. So as to SAVE ELECTRICITY.... Not logical, after making us pay so much for fees.


My fellow colleague, a PhD student of my supervisor. He's the one guiding me through most of the procedures when my supervisor is not around.


Changing media for our cells

After that putting them back into the Co2 incubator

Look how tiny my wells are compared to his plates

This is the main lab where we do other procedures other than tissue culturing

We went to the tour around the research labs at building beside ours. And this was what saw. Dozens of lab coats. These are only part of those i've seen there. In total there are about 3 times of this i think. Ok thats about all. Hopefully i can take some photos of rats next time =))