On March 20th the OEL shut down in lab operations due to the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak. Since then, everyone has been working from home. I asked them to answer 1) How are they keeping their science going? 2) What challenges have you faced and what has worked for you to overcome them? 3) What do you miss most about being in the lab? 4) How are you taking care of yourself? See what they had to say below! Kinsley Tate, Graduate Researcher Working from home has definitely been an adjustment. It is strange to be working from my living room instead of a cell culture room. I am currently writing my proposal from my preliminary exam this Fall. I am also working on analyzing data related to Alzheime
The OEL is moving to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion starting July 1st. We will be moving into the brand new, state-of-the-art building at 4 Riverside which you can see here. We are very excited to move into our brand new space in the Neuroscience wing of the first floor. We will be housed in this dynamic building with faculty in metabolism, cardiovascular sciences, biomaterials and biointerfaces, and infectious disease. On the first floor is the new veterinary clinical oncology suite. Dr. Munson will be overseeing the use of the new Bruker 9.4T MRI/PET instrument that will be installed before the building is opened. We are excited that we will have the opp
