Halloween 2005

Halloween 2005

Dr. Ogawa and Myself

Nao and I fighting!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Yep!
I'm a Pirate!!!

Dr. Hypno

DR. HYPNO to the rescue...

With Galileo and Dr. cheese the lab mice!

The weekend

yep! another Sunday ... no souls around...
and I need to split cells!

What a day!

What a day today...!
But I am going to get through this...

The Flow cytometer

This machine thinks by itself...It is scary...
Yep! you start with all the good intentions and then when gets cloged... Ay yayay!

We need a lab manager!!!

Besides the PhD training, we are learning a lot of different skills, in case we do not make it in academics...well, you never know.( asi como el mil usos!) To list all of them, would be a painful labor.

For your info...
If anyone needs help in fixing machines (gamma counter) or help in change the CO2 tanks, filling boxes of pipet tips, even fixing pipeters, cleaning the -80, -20, -10, -4 or - whatever you want please do not hesitate in give us a call or send us an e-mail @poorstarvingmistreated&abusedphdstudents.com. If you mention this site we will gradly give you 10% off.

Dr. Avina Paranjpe

Here is my sister Avina. She is the QUEEN of dental materials!

My study companion

Yes! This is real! I need to put up with my Orofacial Pain stuff too, mostly at nights!

Botanical Garden 2. Mr. Squirrel

In the botanical garden you can see turtles. I was looking for them today and I couldn't find them.... Well, but I got a pic of a cute squirrel having lunch.

Botanical Garden 1

Today was a beautiful day. I love rainy days. The botanical garden remainds me of San Francisco.

Mi compadre Devang!

Devang is the coolest guy! He just finished his PhD ...

The excelentisimus and honorable Dr. Devang Thakor

Dr. Devang Thakor taking 1000 ul of armenian cognac.

Sad but true.DONATIONS NEEDED. PLEASE HELP

Ay!!!
Please, these are hard times, I think the picture says it all.

Counting cells

Maybe you think this is pretty simple ... just counting the cells before your experiment, yeah, right! take a look of our beautiful hemacytometer.... Como les quedo el ojo, eh?

Our Beautiful hood!

That smile is streesed!

My respects for Dr. Teruel

Dr. Antonia Teruel immersed in transcendental thoughts writing her thesis.

Ethanol!

Specific Aim 1:
To determine the influence of ethanol in releasing the sorrows!.
AJUA!!! SALUD!! CHEERS!!!

After 12 hrs of work!

I feel nauseated!

When the experiment didn't work

Resignation!

Dr. Jose Maximiliano "Max"

Max, taking a nap with Nemo after chasing some mice from the lab.

Picture of me taken by me!

WHO IS MORE STRESSED AFTER 12hrs OF WORK!!!

Dr. Teruel in Action!!!

Here is Antonia, spliting her cells...

Peace and love, sister!

verry scientific... but verrry scientific

mmmmmmmmmm.....

verry, but verry... INTERRESTING!

Mi amiguita Antonia!

Take a look at our COOL!!! microscope

(please do not tell anybody... it is near 100 years old!) ... pura tecnologia!!!

Anyway, for your info we are selling this beautiful antique microscope and its cell counter...make a bid... It is for a good cause... we need antibodies!

Thinking

Shut up!
We are thinking!

My sister Avina

Here we are Avina and me, in the beginning of the day before we stressed out!

Welcome to my lab!

Here is my lab at UCLA, where I have spent the last 4 years of my life working my tail off in tummor immunology with a mouse model that has driven me crazy and also I am a resident in the Orofacial Pain clinic in the school of Dentistry.
Hasn't been easy, anyway, who would say that looking for the "holy grail" would be easy!


This is the last year of my PhD...finally!


A mix of lot's of tears, frustration, smiles and laughs have been my company...and a lot of blessings too.

I am doing my PhD with 2 wonderful girls that more than friends are my family. Together we are the 3 mosqueters, hoping to build this dream one day... be in academics... teach new generations... improve the quality of life of patients.

Welcome to this part of my life. Stay tunned if you want to see the REALITY of what is like to be a PhD student!

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