FUN

FUN STUFF

April 19, 2024 – brunch, a ‘self-guided’ tour through the world’s largest Starbucks, and a fun Chicago Cytoskeleton meeting!

April 8, 2024 – tried not to burn our eyes out…

March 12, 2024 – check out one of the first movies from our lab! We are doing spinning disk confocal demos and captured early endosomes (green) and peroxisomes (magenta) moving in these Aspergillus hyphae! If you look closely maybe you can see some hitchhiking events 🙂 Thanks to Evident, 89North, and CrestOptics for setting up these demos! Taken on the Crest V3.

March 6, 2024 – it’s Western Wednesday! Miranda and Alec are dressed the part and fixin’ to lasso some dynein!

February 9, 2024 – Jenna gave a talk and introduced the lab at the department seminar series!

February 2, 2024 – When not in the lab, Skyler moonlights as a Northwestern expert and campus tour guide! Today she treated us to a personalized campus tour and we took our first official lab photo!

January 23, 2024 – Big day! We made Aspergillus and bacterial plates, arranged equipment, and ran our first PCR! Looking forward to waking up some Aspergillus tomorrow.

January 5, 2024 – our PCR machines have arrived!!!!!!!!!

January 2, 2024 – The Christensen Lab is open! It was a busy day of obtaining ID cards, washing ‘new-to-us’ glassware, and using the label maker.

August 2023 – Aspergillus strains are ready for long distance transport from San Diego to Chicago! Thanks to Khalil for assistance with prepping over 500 strains and the RP lab Aspergillus team for moral support!