CSHL Day 12

Day Twelve, our first day off after eleven very long, very intense, very satisfying days. I had hoped to write and read a lot today, but ended up mostly sleeping.

I’ve learned a lot about yeast genetics, pulled some tetrads, met some great people, and heard some great science. The external support for the course is great also - I’ve had some surreal moments thinking “I’d better not spill my beer on this $100,000 microscope”. And since I need to leave now for more drinks, here are some budding yeast cells stained with calcufluor. The bright spots are the bud scars, I took the picture using a Zeiss Axio Imager system.