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.
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.
This was really interesting, Alex! I wish there were more lab tours like this around RUclips, it would be fascinating to compare different labs. I hope we get to meet your labmates some time. - Ross
+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.
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
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.
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)
+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
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!
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!
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???
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!
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?
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.
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.
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
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 :)
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! :-)
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!
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?
+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 :(
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.
+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
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?
+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...
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.
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.)
SO PUMPED for this new season of Alex Dainis on RUclips - looks like it's going to be super interesting! :-D Thanks for bringing us in to your world, Alex! :-)
I'm in my 50's now, when I was growing up as a school kid in the 1970's, I was always interested in science and even entertained the notion of being a scientist when I grew up but I used to get put off by the rather stuffy image I had of people who worked in labs, middleaged, geeky looking men and women with glasses kind of a thing, I didn't really want to end up like that lol, I have to say, this video of your completely breaks up that idea I had, you make it a look a lot cooler than it was in my time, I never did actually take up a career in science, I became a salesman instead lol, however, I have often wondered how it might have been had I done so, I guess I'll never know for sure, it's one of those time continuum, parallel universe type questions lol, thanks for the upload, it was very interesting.
Alex Dainis, ah I see, I didn't know, thanks for saying so. I think there is some software that can remove shake by readjusting the image; I have seen some "restored" Star Trek footage, where they removed the deliberate camera shake, during the scene where the spaceship gets shot and everyone gets knocked over, which is kinda hilarious to watch, seeing those actors acting. No clue which software that is though, so I am not of much help here, sorry...
I low-key feel so sorry for you, guys because the OSHA standards and the amount of permits you, guys deal with is probably ome the biggest pains in the world to deal with.
Alex Dainis This semester, at my university (I'm from Italy), I took an english course focused on internet linguistics. My professor decided to use your video to talk about vlogging and its features (audience retention, interaction with the audience, irony, kinetics and so forth) :) btw, I think your video is quite funny, I like it a lot :)
Alex Dainis I thought you would love to hear about that! Myself and about 3/400 of my fellow course mates watched your video in class, so I hope you got some more subscriptions! You earned mine :) Keep up with your work
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.
hahaha I love that sad piece of paper that says "corrosive acids". so menacing and weak at the same time...
For a corrosive acid label, it's quite basic...
@@nellSab thank you
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.
I would love to see a time-lapse from you working in the lab. Think it could turn out quite cool :)
Most energetic grad student be like
This was really interesting, Alex! I wish there were more lab tours like this around RUclips, it would be fascinating to compare different labs. I hope we get to meet your labmates some time.
- Ross
+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.
Maybe do a time lapse of you working?
that would be cool
aaaaaah I absolutely love this video and the energy of the tour. I hope your PhD is as fun as it looks!
This makes me so happy! As a paleontologist, my lab space looks VERY different and it's cool to see where other people science!
+Aly Baumgartner Aw man, I would love to see what *your* space looks like! I've never been in a paleontology lab!
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
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.
The RUclips algorithm recommended me this video, and I got to see Alex 8 years ago. xD
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)
+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
What is this loud refrigerator and why is it so loud? ;-)
Can you do a detailed lab tour like opening every drawn and showing us everytjing?
Labs are loud, but a kind of loudness that helps you focus, except when you go to the other room to inject a sample...
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!
+C0nc0rdance Using tape as a gel pouring dam is my favorite lab tape use! For some reason it feel very MacGyver-esque.
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!
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???
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!
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?
Never would have thought a lab would be so messy and cluttered haha.
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.
Happy your back. I enjoy your enthusiasm and videos 👍
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.
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
Was that a hemocytometer. Such compacted chemicals placement
You made this video a lot of fun to watch! Looking forward to watching more!
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 :)
Your lab tour is pretty good.
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! :-)
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!
wah why is that pipette on its side at 1:53 :(
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?
+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 :(
Question: How often does the glass disposal bin get used? Or is that question too personally embarrassing? :-D
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.
What and how do you use a microwave in the lab if its not for.
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.
+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
+thePirateQueenKt This is correct!
+arrowzfly21 It can be used to melt agar without a water bath. That I know.
how to differentiate bioharzard waste and general waste?
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
best lab tour ever
I. Freakin. LOVE. This channel. PLEASE keep up your AMAZING work!
Brings back memories... Nobody works on weekends at your place, or did you film this during an evacuation exercise?... :^p
Plastic shields are important! It probably saves someone in your lab a lot of headaches.
Awesome video! I'm glad the wall we didn't see actually has a window. Until now your lab seemed really claustrophobic.
I also love your printer talking to the world...
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?
i love your channel!! thank you for providing this kind of content on youtube.
and it's gonna be so awesome for your future phd holding self to look back at these videos haha
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!
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
Where is everybody???
+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...
Are the photos towards the back of you the dissected heart LOL?
What kind of autoclave for sterilization?
Its been 3 years since your last lipsync montage. Thinking of making a new one? :D up the ante a bit?
Wheres the autoclave? You don't just give all your beakers aluminum hats for no reason right?
Hi can you tour the entrance of your Lab?
Where the frickin heck is the PCR?
You should talk about your lab mates sometime. My favorite part of grad school were the long discussions and arguments with them.
Why does your microwave say "NO FOOD OR DRINKS"? What do you microwave then?
+MrJamhamm Lab reagents! Especially agarose to make gels... that video is coming soon!
+MrJamhamm
For people who don't want Ethidium Bromide on their Hot Pockets, what with the colon cancer and all.
Alex Dainis But what if you want to reheat pizza? What then?!
Unless that pizza is going to be fed to my cell culture, I gotta hit up the kitchen.
Interesting, smart and funny. Thank you! :)
Nice vid Alex! What kind of lab is that, a genetics lab?
+Fox Mulder yes she says that in one of her earlier videos :)
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.
I thought you’d mention a laminar flow hood? But, hey waaaaay cool lab!! I’m very jealous .
It’s funny I can tell she’s been trained in the west coast from the way she talks, and it turns out to be Stanford...
Beautiful place., and tools., and aparatus.,
Where is this lab located.
easternblot is awesome. Also really liked the tour.
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.)
What exactly are you working on?
SO PUMPED for this new season of Alex Dainis on RUclips - looks like it's going to be super interesting! :-D
Thanks for bringing us in to your world, Alex! :-)
What's her accent? I only notice it sometime but some words she says sounds Irish or something
why dont u use eppendorf pipettes
Really helpful and informative
Looooove the tour!
Great video!
Great video Alex.
-From Auburn University.
You are a chemical engineer? or Biologist? sorry I'm new to your youtube channel.
I hope I will have my own laboratory
I want to do my Master and phD research in such a well furnished Lab...IA
omg...so cool the place you work
What is your profession? You're cool!!
What is the name of that microscope
what is the consensus on genetic engineering in your laboratory. Do you all condone it, or condemn it? Why?
Your lab is soooooooooooo big!
High technology equipment and beautiful., it's completely
What are you studying?
It looks messy, just like my life. I still dont know what job shall i get in the future
Loved this.
I am crazy about labs and this video 😻😻
Love the setup :)
Is that a school lab or something else.
I'm in my 50's now, when I was growing up as a school kid in the 1970's, I was always interested in science and even entertained the notion of being a scientist when I grew up but I used to get put off by the rather stuffy image I had of people who worked in labs, middleaged, geeky looking men and women with glasses kind of a thing, I didn't really want to end up like that lol, I have to say, this video of your completely breaks up that idea I had, you make it a look a lot cooler than it was in my time, I never did actually take up a career in science, I became a salesman instead lol, however, I have often wondered how it might have been had I done so, I guess I'll never know for sure, it's one of those time continuum, parallel universe type questions lol, thanks for the upload, it was very interesting.
Wow this video make laboratory living is quite interesting
Which uni
Do you work at a University lab?
Hmm, no handheld camera tour?
+Willem van de Beek I tried. It was incredibly shaky and not fun to watch.
Alex Dainis, ah I see, I didn't know, thanks for saying so. I think there is some software that can remove shake by readjusting the image; I have seen some "restored" Star Trek footage, where they removed the deliberate camera shake, during the scene where the spaceship gets shot and everyone gets knocked over, which is kinda hilarious to watch, seeing those actors acting. No clue which software that is though, so I am not of much help here, sorry...
I can certainly correct footage using After Effects, but I thought this might be a little more fun :)
Ah okay, cool :D
The room in my dreams...
I thought this was a skincare laboratory but it’s just a general lab. Cute.
Hello
Hi
Nice video. Great looks.
Looks great. Nice review. Go Smart things.
Mr. Branch
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
I low-key feel so sorry for you, guys because the OSHA standards and the amount of permits you, guys deal with is probably ome the biggest pains in the world to deal with.
We have analysed this video in a linguistics class, you know?
+Silvia Rollet I did not!!! I would love to hear about this, tell me more!
Alex Dainis This semester, at my university (I'm from Italy), I took an english course focused on internet linguistics. My professor decided to use your video to talk about vlogging and its features (audience retention, interaction with the audience, irony, kinetics and so forth) :) btw, I think your video is quite funny, I like it a lot :)
+Silvia Rollet That's amazing, thank you for sharing!!! I hope I was a good case study :) Thank you for watching!
Alex Dainis I thought you would love to hear about that! Myself and about 3/400 of my fellow course mates watched your video in class, so I hope you got some more subscriptions! You earned mine :) Keep up with your work
Cool, great lab.
You are so cute and cheerful.
Thanks for your videos, I like it.
Lol an enthusiastic masters student. Give it a year and you will be ready to take a sledgehammer to your glassware cabinet. XD