Group photo

In the atrium of the ICR

Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race

Today, we have gone to the Hammersmith bridge to see the famous Oxford-Cambridge race on the Thames. It was a good fun but there was a huge crowd so I couldn't see too much... The Oxford's crew won the race (dark blue).

NGS Workshop

I've just attended an NGS course at the European Bioinformatics Institute which provided me a really memorable time. Sometimes it was difficult to keep pace but the speakers were top-level bioinformaticians and we also had a chance of visiting the famous Sanger Institute.

 

 15PB < data storage capacity

The old-fashioned (right) and the new style (left) 

and the giant :-)

Missing Spring

Snow again...just can't believe it.

Sightseeing

My parents from Hungary visited us this week so we could spend a couple of very nice days together and discover some of the attractions in London.

Picadilly Circus

 Mobile Cinema

St James' Park

Oxford Street 

Changing the Guard at the Buckingham Palace 

 Speakers' corner

 St Paul Cathedral

Tower Bridge 

 The Shard

 HMS Belfast

 The Prime Minister's Residency

Images from the lab

DNA material, I'm analyzing now. This collection of samples is unique since it includes bone marrow-derived DNA from eight monozygotic twin pairs who developed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)...so the low number of eppendorf tubes might be misleading. This kind of samples are extremely rare and allow me to answer very specific scientific questions. Therefore, the value of this collection is equal to that of several thousands other ALL samples withdrawn from patients not having a co-twin with ALL.

Specific reagents allowing to analyze various genetic features of patients.

My laboratory notebook. I need to make notes about all the experiments in a way that allows other people to reproduce my results. Interestingly, this is the ICR's property and to bring it out from the institute is strictly prohibited.

No, this is definitely not my bench but my colleague's one. I thought it was much more interesting than mine since I can't generate this kind of fascinating chaos.