Topics Today: "Dr. Zeldenrust", 31 out of 48, and writing papers

I have my results back! Now it will just be a whole mess of work trying to get the nucleotide sequences sorted out, haplogroup them, and write my paper. I received an e-mail today telling me that my my sequences were done, and also the heading to the e-mail was "Hi, Dr. Zeldenrust". It really was awesome! I can't wait to get my doctorate so more people people can call me that. Haha.
      Out of the 48 samples that I sent, 31 came back as a usable nucleotide sequence, and as Dr. Baker tells me, that's a pretty respectable number, and a number comparable to the results that she gets back. Dr. Baker tells me that she is impressed, and that it's a really good outcome for my first solo try at this lab procedure. It's been a really good day :)


But, now that I have my results back, I need to get cracking on them. And I also need to get cracking on this paper. The results need to get done in order to write this paper, and this paper needs to be written by Monday! AHHHH. Also I need to contact all of the subjects, and tell them that either their samples didn't work or tell them their haplogroup. I think I'm going to do this during that really long weekend between Interim and Spring semester.   ugh, so much to do.


But this is a copy of what my results are when they got back. In another blog post, I'll write about how i transformed these into my actual data...