Gallery

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Our undergraduate CURE students learning how to concentrate viruses from the LSU Campus Lake.  It was a fun and beautiful day!
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Graduate student and TA extraordinaire, Sophie Jurgensen, teaching undergraduates in our CURE course how to enumerate viral and bacterial abundances in water samples they collected from around the LSU campus.

 

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Sophie during our first lab sampling expedition in Bayou Fountain (AKA the ditch behind our building). She collected critical samples required to test our shiny new epifluorescence microscope.

 

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We have lab stickers!!!!! Currently resisting the urge to put these on everything.

 

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Our department has a crawfish boil every spring and a shrimp boil every fall.  Soooooo good!

 

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All good lab equipment comes on pallets.  Time to get crafty in how to use these… maybe make a nice table for our much-needed coffee center.

 

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We might just be getting a little crazy with the label maker.

 

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Our lab after unpacking most of our new equipment and supplies.  If a messy lab is a productive lab, then we are super productive right now!