In a flash, Year 1 is done! Somehow, I was fortunate enough to land a solid team of
people in a short amount of time: Jack, Shruti, and Quin were all in lab getting
things up-and-running right as I started, then Kaitlyn, Marisa, & Veronica joined us
soon after. We hit the ground running with ice cream (as one should), and then
started a long few months of getting quotes, getting non-stop packages,
and spending more time role-playing as engineers than working as biologists! We
quickly got to work in the Spring as Emily joined the lab, and after a semester of
actual work with recruitment, talks, troubleshooting, interviews, rotations… we
welcomed Lavenda into the lab as the first PhD student!
