Tastes Like Science!

I went to an INBRE meeting with my lab group this weekend. Research students make posters and present their research there every year. My poster was about my role in our ongoing blackberry research; I extract and amplify the DNA to determine the relatedness of the population. My friend Madeline and my "minion" Jeff were there defending the poster as well.

I work in another lab where I care for pythons and the rat colony that will one day feed them. We had more than 20 babies two weeks ago and they're so cute! I love the rat babies even though I know they're food, and I play with them as often as I can. I call this one Nicodemus, like the hero in "The Rats of NIMH". He'll grow up to be a breeder before he's food.