Lab Tour!

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Trying to document grad school one KZfaq video at a time, from lab equipment to genetics lessons to interviews with other students! Each week is a new view into life as a grad student, and the rollercoaster that is getting a PhD.
Twitter: @AlexDainis
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"Marty Gots a Plan" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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(All thoughts and opinions are my own and do not reflect the thoughts or opinions of my institution.)
Thank you to DCMP for captioning! www.dcmp.org

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@myrest3334 8 жыл бұрын

hahaha I love that sad piece of paper that says "corrosive acids". so menacing and weak at the same time...

@nellSab 4 жыл бұрын

For a corrosive acid label, it's quite basic...

@jeremymcadams7743 3 жыл бұрын

@@nellSab thank you

@thefishyfish8544 6 жыл бұрын

aaaaaah I absolutely love this video and the energy of the tour. I hope your PhD is as fun as it looks!

@user-wf3iw1qv4x Жыл бұрын

Your laboratory is a very technological and comfortable place. Everything is nearby, but at the same time everything has its place. It's great that there are separate places to work (bench and desk). But it's also great that there are objects that ensure general safety (fire extinguisher). I am a biology student and spend a lot of time in the labs for practice too. And I think it's really important that the lab be your comfortable place.

@jaredgoff4561 7 жыл бұрын

You made this video a lot of fun to watch! Looking forward to watching more!

@supergoku1515 8 жыл бұрын

Happy your back. I enjoy your enthusiasm and videos 👍

@Illogic69 8 жыл бұрын

I would love to see a time-lapse from you working in the lab. Think it could turn out quite cool :)

@esdraslopez4658 5 жыл бұрын

I. Freakin. LOVE. This channel. PLEASE keep up your AMAZING work!

@Seegalgalguntijak 8 жыл бұрын

Alex, I really liked that, it's very interesting! I'm also looking forward to the next videos where you explain what you do with the microwave, or what these gels are and what they're used for, and why the microwave is so important in making them and so on! Keep on sciencing for the world to see! :-)

@hellopanda135 7 жыл бұрын

i love your channel!! thank you for providing this kind of content on youtube.

@hellopanda135 7 жыл бұрын

and it's gonna be so awesome for your future phd holding self to look back at these videos haha

@AppliedScience 8 жыл бұрын

Cool! I used to spend a fair bit of time in the Lucas Center for a previous job, so some of the décor looks very familiar. I'm looking forward to your videos on technique/equipment.

@pleasedontdoxme6237 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the extra effort of the captions

@Sasori_n Жыл бұрын

Very exciting and interesting video! It is rare to find such informative and capacious tours of laboratories! I hope one day to visit and work in such a wonderful laboratory as yours. Also, as a biology student, I understand how important it is to be suitable for work.

@Markovisch 6 жыл бұрын

Looooove the tour!

@wethecurious 8 жыл бұрын

This was really interesting, Alex! I wish there were more lab tours like this around KZfaq, it would be fascinating to compare different labs. I hope we get to meet your labmates some time. - Ross

@AlexDainisPhD 8 жыл бұрын

+At-Bristol Science Centre I'll see if I can convince them to join me on camera! I think they're currently all happily avoiding my lens and supportively chuckling at my internet antics.

@sssophyst Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your video! I am also a biology student and will soon be working in a laboratory. It was very interesting to find out what kind of equipment I would have to work with. Your laboratory looks very comfortable, in such a place you want to do science! It is very motivating and inspiring. I hope that my work will be just as interesting and exciting

@AliJardz 7 жыл бұрын

Loved this.

@RoadRunnerMeep 5 жыл бұрын

Love the setup :)

@SciJoy 7 жыл бұрын

easternblot is awesome. Also really liked the tour.

@Abdullah-mt9ns 5 жыл бұрын

best lab tour ever

@ricarleite 8 жыл бұрын

Maybe do a time lapse of you working?

@jephthahjoseph8539 7 жыл бұрын

that would be cool

@AlyBaumgartner 8 жыл бұрын

This makes me so happy! As a paleontologist, my lab space looks VERY different and it's cool to see where other people science!

@AlexDainisPhD 8 жыл бұрын

+Aly Baumgartner Aw man, I would love to see what *your* space looks like! I've never been in a paleontology lab!

@user-vp7jr2ho2v Жыл бұрын

A wonderful laboratory that looks both cozy and technologically advanced. I hope that I will work in a similar place as a biologist. In addition, I like the responsible attitude to safety and comfort - division into departments, different work areas and even a fire extinguisher is just great.

@krustok 8 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@SoutherStacker007 7 жыл бұрын

Great video Alex. -From Auburn University.

@espanol9942 3 жыл бұрын

Your lab tour is pretty good.

@bobafett7558 8 жыл бұрын

Interesting, smart and funny. Thank you! :)

@supersmashsam 8 жыл бұрын

That was fun! Do grad students have another office outside the lab where they can work more quietly and have lunch? Are your labmates aware of your filming antics dring the week-ends? If yes, maybe some of them would be willing to participate to some of your videos! Also, that thing on the right at 2:01 resemble an awfull lot like a rice cooker :P Keep up the good work!

@XSpImmaLion 3 ай бұрын

The KZfaq algorithm recommended me this video, and I got to see Alex 8 years ago. xD

@idoussia 8 жыл бұрын

Hello, Alex! I loved the tour video! Wanted to ask you if you guys have a cryo-electron microscope? Just interested. Additionally, you have two boxes at the tissue culture area. I wonder if the box areas are used for working with different materials? I wish my lab would be good enough to have a tour guide video to record in it :D Thank you for the video again! Sincerely, Dounia :)

@timlsi6327 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, that was pretty cool lab you have there. Could you tell us, what kind of research do you focused on right now, and maybe you could show us what kind of equipment you are usually use for the research. Hail researcher!

@C0nc0rdance 8 жыл бұрын

I love your videos, Alex! Quirky and fun. You should totally talk about multi-color lab tape and it's manifold uses. It's a label! It's a gel pouring dam! It's a load-bearing structure!

@AlexDainisPhD 8 жыл бұрын

+C0nc0rdance Using tape as a gel pouring dam is my favorite lab tape use! For some reason it feel very MacGyver-esque.

@luyang7033 7 жыл бұрын

Your lab is soooooooooooo big!

@user-kn4ly6zs6l 2 жыл бұрын

Really helpful and informative

@Tomonkey4 8 жыл бұрын

How about a video on all the different types of flasks and other glassware in those cabinets holding way more things than I would think such a small lab would need?

@The_Mendoza 8 жыл бұрын

What is this loud refrigerator and why is it so loud? ;-)

@anamoon5796 6 жыл бұрын

omg...so cool the place you work

@gregoriobernardo2503 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful place., and tools., and aparatus.,

@veganbackpacking-8559 7 жыл бұрын

Loved the video! :) Maybe it's a weird question, but; are labs where there is being worked with bacteria and such, hermetically sealed? Or having a air-lock/cleaning room which we sometimes see in movies?

@mastershooter64 Жыл бұрын

Most energetic grad student be like

@cadenericson3730 7 жыл бұрын

Can you do a detailed lab tour like opening every drawn and showing us everytjing?

@ricardoguzman114 7 жыл бұрын

I noticed a couple of analytical balances. What brand/models are they? I have an A&D GF-300N. It is only a milligram balance, but I have plans to get maybe a Scientech Zeta Series analytical balance.

@mainlytrombone 8 жыл бұрын

SO PUMPED for this new season of Alex Dainis on KZfaq - looks like it's going to be super interesting! :-D Thanks for bringing us in to your world, Alex! :-)

@OnwardToMail 8 жыл бұрын

Never would have thought a lab would be so messy and cluttered haha.

@Mrtrigrhappy 3 жыл бұрын

I used to do chemical waste disposal so I was in and out of these labs all day and I've seen WAY worse. Most of the students are horribly un-organized and leave anything and everything laying out.

@rgalt5675 8 жыл бұрын

You should talk about your lab mates sometime. My favorite part of grad school were the long discussions and arguments with them.

@notsyort 8 жыл бұрын

Question: How often does the glass disposal bin get used? Or is that question too personally embarrassing? :-D

@altaroffire56 8 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! I'm glad the wall we didn't see actually has a window. Until now your lab seemed really claustrophobic.

@altaroffire56 8 жыл бұрын

I also love your printer talking to the world...

@momsmushroomsjodyfoster5786 4 жыл бұрын

I thought you’d mention a laminar flow hood? But, hey waaaaay cool lab!! I’m very jealous .

@bilalsahid4747 5 жыл бұрын

love your voice

@rzgre7611 5 жыл бұрын

I am crazy about labs and this video 😻😻

@xxxdnaskatexxx 7 жыл бұрын

Badass!

@Calciferic 8 жыл бұрын

What is the thing with a transparent spherical cover on your bench and what is it for? (1:02 for reference. You seem to have two of them and one is open)

@thePirateQueenKt 8 жыл бұрын

+Calciferic Mini centrifuges for spinning down things in tiny tubes - the one in front looks like it's for pcr tubes (which are very tiny) - the one behind is probably for slightly larger standard sized 1.5ml tubes - liquid can get up in their caps or on the sides of the tube so you need to give them a quick spin to bring all the liquid down

@Lucassymons 8 жыл бұрын

you have a dedicated glass bin? Just how much glass dose one break in the average week? And be honest how much of it is because you dropped it and released some thing that may or may not be life threatening?

@AlexDainisPhD 8 жыл бұрын

+Lucas symons I'd say we break about one glass thing a month. It doesn't get emptied frequently. I believe the last item added was my shattered glass tea tumbler :(

@NikolajLepka 8 жыл бұрын

This is part of the reason why I love software engineering Although you don't get to work in a snazzy lab like this one, you're free to work wherever you want so long as you have a laptop handy

@charlesdauphin3324 8 жыл бұрын

Brings back memories... Nobody works on weekends at your place, or did you film this during an evacuation exercise?... :^p

@blackmetalwarrior3697 6 жыл бұрын

Cool, great lab. You are so cute and cheerful. Thanks for your videos, I like it.

@xja85mac 8 жыл бұрын

Labs are loud, but a kind of loudness that helps you focus, except when you go to the other room to inject a sample...

@exqvaax 6 жыл бұрын

Epiccccccccccccc

@haymaroo3577 3 жыл бұрын

how to differentiate bioharzard waste and general waste?

@thabangramokoena6229 3 жыл бұрын

Was that a hemocytometer. Such compacted chemicals placement

@sirhenry4634 4 жыл бұрын

What kind of autoclave for sterilization?

@rrozinak 8 жыл бұрын

What exactly are you working on?

@alisonroxx9 8 жыл бұрын

I'm honestly pretty jealous that your desk is next to your bench. I'm so sick of running back and forth between the office and lab!

@oliviaharlow3866 8 жыл бұрын

What's her accent? I only notice it sometime but some words she says sounds Irish or something

@davidsweeney111 8 жыл бұрын

Nice vid Alex! What kind of lab is that, a genetics lab?

@ChelseaJeanBentley 8 жыл бұрын

+Fox Mulder yes she says that in one of her earlier videos :)

@stanlymanly2 8 жыл бұрын

Its been 3 years since your last lipsync montage. Thinking of making a new one? :D up the ante a bit?

@zionbhat9296 5 жыл бұрын

Where is this lab located.

@cynx56 8 жыл бұрын

kept waiting for a jump scare :)

@noviannovian1938 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this video make laboratory living is quite interesting

@arrowzfly21 8 жыл бұрын

What and how do you use a microwave in the lab if its not for.

@Humineral 8 жыл бұрын

It's for soup. Is it a food? Is it a drink? I don't know, let's try and microwave it to find out.

@thePirateQueenKt 8 жыл бұрын

+arrowzfly21 That'll be explained in the promised video on gels I bet - short version - you microwave the stuff that makes the gel to dissolve it all before pouring it

@AlexDainisPhD 8 жыл бұрын

+thePirateQueenKt This is correct!

@SgtMantis 8 жыл бұрын

+arrowzfly21 It can be used to melt agar without a water bath. That I know.

@oscarramos2397 2 жыл бұрын

For PhD students in other countries doing research, do you labs look similar? I'm curious to see what laboratories from other countries look like

@gregoriobernardo2503 3 жыл бұрын

High technology equipment and beautiful., it's completely

@mjnyc8655 8 жыл бұрын

I can't recall another video in which the viewers are prompted to do science without the hand gesture. (I'm amazed how Ms. Dainis gets cuter as she ages.)

@aileronster 7 жыл бұрын

Literally right after you mention the most serious piece of equipment in the lab, you pass what looks like a crock pot at 2:02. What is that thing? Also, the place at 2:28 in the background on the left that I can only assume is where you clean your glassware beakers, containers. How's that done???

@AlexDainisPhD 7 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, it's a pressure cooker, not a crock-pot! It's used in one of our slide staining protocols. And that's a drying rack after things have been washed!

@briancabactulan7391 3 жыл бұрын

Hi can you tour the entrance of your Lab?

@marctelfer6159 8 жыл бұрын

TIL that real-life labs look a lot more untidy that Dexter's Lab, yet are somehow more ordered. On an unrelated note... I wonder if anyone's ever gotten the food microwave and non-food microwave mixed up.

@georgeh5075 5 жыл бұрын

That music is my life

@JimtheEvo 8 жыл бұрын

Where is everybody???

@AlexDainisPhD 8 жыл бұрын

+JimTheEvo There's a handful of us that work on the weekends, but normally not full days. I shot this right after the research associate left and before the other grad student showed up...

@itsreeah2663 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know why I was searching this app. I am blind and my ambition is to become a scientist and then I’m going to get there Sunday

@rzgre7611 5 жыл бұрын

I am a biology student in metu or I will be 😂 that's will be my first class and I am lucky to find you

@kingofcobwebs 8 жыл бұрын

Plastic shields are important! It probably saves someone in your lab a lot of headaches.

@MSgCapuaHVthPRS 7 жыл бұрын

What is the name of that microscope

@ivyzhang674 5 жыл бұрын

Are the photos towards the back of you the dissected heart LOL?

@onur2133 6 жыл бұрын

I NEED TO TIDY THAT PLACE UP OMG

@AlexDainisPhD 6 жыл бұрын

You and my lab manager both agree 😂

@hottamale180 5 жыл бұрын

why dont u use eppendorf pipettes

@BritishTightEnd 3 жыл бұрын

Which uni

@E-N-sy1mi 5 жыл бұрын

The room in my dreams...

@denyesha2158 3 жыл бұрын

I hope I will have my own laboratory

@veenibik336 4 жыл бұрын

It looks messy, just like my life. I still dont know what job shall i get in the future

@XNaturalPhenomenonX 8 жыл бұрын

dude. you are cool.

@soulcatch 8 жыл бұрын

What are you studying?

@gurkiratji23 8 жыл бұрын

Do you work at a University lab?

@Timothy.Hutama 8 жыл бұрын

wah why is that pipette on its side at 1:53 :(

@AhsanUllah-ie8ml Жыл бұрын

I want to do my Master and phD research in such a well furnished Lab...IA

@watzerenauffe 8 жыл бұрын

Where the frickin heck is the PCR?

@toncheri7681 4 жыл бұрын

What is your profession? You're cool!!

@MrJamhamm 8 жыл бұрын

Why does your microwave say "NO FOOD OR DRINKS"? What do you microwave then?

@AlexDainisPhD 8 жыл бұрын

+MrJamhamm Lab reagents! Especially agarose to make gels... that video is coming soon!

@C0nc0rdance 8 жыл бұрын

+MrJamhamm For people who don't want Ethidium Bromide on their Hot Pockets, what with the colon cancer and all.

@MrJamhamm 8 жыл бұрын

Alex Dainis But what if you want to reheat pizza? What then?!

@AlexDainisPhD 8 жыл бұрын

Unless that pizza is going to be fed to my cell culture, I gotta hit up the kitchen.

@khylaloviesseperez7188 6 жыл бұрын

In need to make an chemical laboratory and I was waiting for the 3rd and 4th row but thts all hahaha

@nathanielbailey9274 8 жыл бұрын

Wheres the autoclave? You don't just give all your beakers aluminum hats for no reason right?

@abdoboujarat9737 3 жыл бұрын

😭😭 i dead now

@victorndolo2378 5 жыл бұрын

amaizing would love to work at such a laboratory #soequiped #adventurelab