Glasgow::: Arrival

Flights went well. Arrived in Glasgow near 7:30am this morning to open arms of Wesley and Helen. Had some wonderfully Scottish breakfast in the West End consisting of poached eggs and sausage on a warm ciabatta roll.  Fantastic. Then, Helen, Wes, and I trounced around some small alley ways and some more major city streets popping into little nuanced antique and second hand shops, saw the Glasgow botanical gardens, and got some incredible Turkish Food. All this and only a couple of hours of sleep since sunday morning.   Weather: high s of mid 40's F, chilly wind but the sun came out.  Quite a nice change, so they tell me, from their recent more frigid and grey weather.

just laying around at wes' flat

Breakfast at the West Bank Cafe 

Graduation

A day near Disneylandia

Huntington Pier

SLO is a beautiful place.

Another Side of Cellular Biology

So recently in my cellular biology class, we've been able to look at specific cells after staining them so that different parts of the cell will show up under different wavelengths of light.  It's called fluorescence microscopy.  So theses are some photos that my lab partner I took while observing some of our stained cells while in lab. You'll see some of the cells visualized from the same vantage point, seemingly shown twice but they will have be in a different color. This essentially allows us to distinguish between the make up of the cell: actin filaments, microtubules, genetic material, etc. 

Enjoy.

Homage

Dr. Robert Belanger

A loving husband, father, grandfather and fine doctor to the end of his days.

1927-2011