Friday, November 27, 2009

Things to study

My application for post-graduate study have been approved. And my colleagues also found the nodavirus in Malaysia riverprawn, this means we can start our respective research anytime as we own the virus sample!
I have not ready yet... these few days i kept reading and studying these things---

DNA sequencing (pyrosequencing, chain termination method, chemical sequencing, primer walking, shotgun sequencing)
Mass spectrometry
Electrophoresis (gel electrophoresis, capillary electrophoresis, SDS-PAGE, 2D gel electrophoresis, affinity electrophoresis, temperature gradient electrophoresis),
Blotting (Southern, easthen, western, northern, dot blot, electroblotting)
HPLC, PCR, RFLP......

It's a new field to me. During undergraduateship, i did learn some of the concepts in a course called genetics. That's all. Now not only i need to know the concept thereotically, but also the practical steps on how to run it up correctly as well as the principle and rationality beyond these concepts.
Like we had learned the traffic law, but now we need to know how to drive and next, what makes a car run chemically and mechanically.

It really takes me a long time and enormous concentration to read. I need to fight with sleepiness everyday. May God give me wisdom and concentration to deal with the new challenge.

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