Ka's Research Pictures
"This is the plant that I worked on in Dr. Gage's lab. It is called Wallistonia biflora and it is a weed found in Florida. It is a very high DMS accumulator (for a plant) and it was pretty nice to work with. You know know spinich smells when you cut it? That smell is the DMS. When we would do our MMT purifications, the lab would reek like that. At least I didn't mind spinich too much. Better than other smells, and you did get use to it after a few hours. Which was good, since we would be there for a couple of DAYS when we did that protocol."
"This is the Gage Lab as we knew it. The one kneeling in the center is Dr. Gage. He was great to work with. On the right is the graduate student Wayne, who is still there. I am next to him, and Cheryl is next to me. Cheryl and I were good friends, lab partners on the MMT product, in the same class and major, and roommates. We were each others shadow around the biochem department the last couple of years. The tall guy in the back is Bill. He is actually taller than he looks, he slouching to fit into the picture with the angle it was being taken (so was Cheryl -- she is over 6 feet, and Bill was significatly taller than her). He graduated in December 1999 with a Criminal Justice major. He began as the lab dishwasher and ended up running many of the HPLC and other experiments by the end. He is now a police office for the city of Detroit. I know I wouldn't want to be arrested by him! Next to him is his sister Stacy. She was the one who got Bill into the lab, becuase she worked there when she was an undergaduate. For the last couple of years (since she graduated) she has worked in Dr. Lyckem's lab just upstairs, but she often still comes down to run experiments on the MALDI-MS. She is a friend and scooby-do fanatic. Next to her is the post-doc that was assigned to keep Cheryl and I from burning down Biochem. That is Tun-Li, and he was a great boss. I am sure he knew we were all nuts, but that didn't stop him from joining us in our lab mini-parties and all night purifications!"
"This is actually a poster from 1995, when I worked with Mierta Sivak. We were trying to do an outreach program for HS students in Biochem. That was mu freshman honors project. Then, in 1996, (I was still in Dr. Preiss's lab) I had the next poster. That was fun, and it was a good project to work on. My boss, a graduate student (Kim) was a very nice fellow, and I learned a lot about general biochem."
"The next few years, I worked with Cheryl on the MMT project. That was in 1997-1999. This was the same project that I got the Michigan Space Grant Consortium grant for... That was a lot of fun, and it was not all that bad to put together. I was impressed."
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