Working in Steve Jacobsen’s lab

I’m now doing research for the Jacobsen Lab here at UCLA focusing on gene silencing. It sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun. It’s the first time that I’ll be doing genetics research at UCLA and I’m excited. At the moment I’m going to have to tend the plants and do some genetic analysis, probably running Southern blots. Maybe in the future I’ll do PCR if Simon, the post-doc I’m working with, lets me. For the moment, I’ll be doing the typical undergraduate lab gruntwork but that’s fine with me.