Saturday, June 19, 2010

Summertime, and the living ain't easy...

Forgive my bastardization of that classic standard's first line but, as I've mentioned before, Summer is the busiest time of the year for me. My laboratory takes in students from various programs and I have promised my chief tech that I would back off from taking in more students. So, I did—by one when compared to last year. ;-) However, in my defense, we have some EXCELLENT students in the lab this Summer.

Aside from trying to get them up and running, all is proceeding apace and I hope to even get some time in the lab for my own experiments. We have the newest version of RTXI up and running so we'll FINALLY be able to do some of the dynamic clamp experiments I've been dying to do for a few years.

In other news, I'm trying to figure out what my "minimal software set" is for my Macintosh. I have a laundry list of proprietary and open source software that I use and I want to pare that down to the minimum. I'll keep you posted!