photo courtesy of huimin!

on these plates are tiny bacteria colonies that turn purple when they contact the stuff we are interested in. it's not as purple as i would have liked, though. (there's only one purple colony, dammit! but i'm proud of my agar cutting. :D)


these are our mutant colonies! (i think. can't see the label.) pretty separate colonies. :D
oh and i know i'm weird but i like the smell of LB/ bacteria. which smells like chicken essence. oh well. everyone else thinks it stinks.


WORMS!!!!!


c. elegans, to be exact.
took these by pointing the camera at the microscope lens. it was very difficult ok! huimin managed to do it in the end.
they crawl around pretty fast and are really fascinating, as jane says.
er, so we cultured them to kill them off with protease. XD yet we're not allowed to centrifuge them because it's causing "unnecessary pain" to them and its against animal activists' morals. whatever.


more worms!!!!! i think this one's dead.


our doodling board which they're going to tack on the noticeboard outside the lab. it's probably the messiest so far. and the one with most nonsense. there's a hc logo if you squint! and a centrifuge and pipette and the biosensor petri dish if you squint harder!


i love the way they let us use the microscope without asking. actually that applies to pretty much most things. :D


nice messy benchtop with reagents arranged in alphabetical order. beat that, src!


lovely yellow biohazard bag where we threw all our plates in. T.T


did you guys know these contain liquid nitrogen? O.o


there is part 2 coming because these are only the photos from huimin's camera! there's still wan jane's!

:D