Congratulations!! Usually those jobs are for the younger ones who learned all
about this at school. Nine years ago I helped setting up a PCR-lab in the
hospital where I work. It was great, but hardly knowing anything about DNA and
RNA it was difficult. PCR-theory and -protocols were not hard to get, but
simple practical things like "what does boiling, freezing, thawing do to my
samples" we had to find out ourselves. But having a microbiological background
is a great advantage to prevent contamination. That's in your genes, so to
speak. It worked out allright, and we have got a good laboratory there now.
I always missed the cultures though, slowly withdrew a few years ago and I am
happily involved in the organizing of the "gardening"-department again.
Loes
Anne Thomas wrote:
> Jorge
>> Enviable position??!! Its a bit scary to me at the moment! Tomorrow I start
> a new job in a Reference Lab after working in a routing hospital
> microbiology lab for 17 years. I have to switch from plating out leg ulcer
> swabs etc to PCR and other R+D work. At the moment I feel I know absolutely
> nothing about these "new" techniques but I'm getting there slowly with the
> help of websites such as "What the Heck is PCR?" and also from encouragment
> and advise from friends in these newsgroups.
> To be honest...you are right Jorge... I'm really glad to have this
> opportunity as I felt I was just "fossilising" in my old job + the new
> techniques were just passing me by. (I will have to remember I said that
> when I feel I've taken on too much!)
>> Anne :o)
>> Jorge1907 <jorge1907 at aol.com> wrote in message
> news:19990925174053.24197.00002358 at ng-cm1.aol.com...> > You guys are in the enviable position (enviable to old guys like me) of
> seeing
> > the marriage of the old and new microbiologies. Have fun and we look for
> YOUR
> > texts of this.
> >
> > Please do not be bound by the going-in belief that the classic
> microbiology and
> > molecular biology data bases will overlay without conflict.
