MSTF ASU June 19

Day 4 at ASU. Today we dissected blackwidows to expose the web glands with the help of Jenelle the graduate assistant. Janelle did most of the work. It was surprising how large the glands are for the size of the spider. The major gland looked exactly like the drawings, white translucence yam shape gland. Halfway through the morning Tom (undergraduate) took us on a tour/ field trip to see a few of the other labs. It was tough to take in all the new labs when I was starting learn just a little bit about the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lab. The 4 labs were small in an older building verses NMR lab which is very large and in a new building. All the labs are extremely interesting. The tour included the machine shop (my line of work). To operate in a true research lab you have to be proficient in many practical fields from glass blowing to machining parts. Tom was extremely knowledgeable in all the labs. The graduate and undergraduate students were very friendly, knowledgeable, and excited about their projects.