DRUSE

After two weeks of transition, I am now back to my routine. I have transferred from Milton Keynes to Oxford, and I brought some of my flies with me. Now I can sit down, clear my thoughts from the whirlwind of moving from one lab to the other, and think of what needs to be achieved within the next 351 days. I have started preliminary analysis of the EM images of DmWRNexo and hWRNexo. Previously, Ivan B prepared the sample while Catherine V-B took the photos on the EM. A certain Mademoiselle Dorthe did the first set of “picking molecules” from the images. I continued from what she had done. Three consecutive days of staring at EM images and “picking molecules” was alright. It was not really very tiring, but it was time-consuming. The goal is to “pick” a minimum of 2000 particles in order to generate a reliable molecular structure. Catherine V-B says 8000 is even better. I’m excited how DmWRNexo would look like. More on this in the coming days.