Summer research 2015 First week of PCR First week of PCR The summer fly room Imad and Barbara take time out to pose for a photo Barbara perfecting a BCA assay Janet loading a plate to run an antioxidant activity assay Janet setting up the plate reader for her antioxidant assay. The plate reader is hilarious! Janet shows off her beautiful standard curve! Jacqueline is a natural fly pusher. Imad proudly shows off our first Western blot! Angel mixes reagents to develop our Western. Angel and Imad putting the coomassie gel puzzle back together after some overly vigorous shaking