{"id":488,"date":"2013-10-03T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/?p=488"},"modified":"2013-10-03T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:58:11","slug":"another-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/2013\/10\/03\/another-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Another New Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sense a theme.<\/p>\n

Henry’s just posted about the arrival of his new book<\/a>, and Richard about that of his and Jenny’s new son<\/a>. Athene’s Moving on to Pastures New<\/a> and its companion, Moving On (Part II)<\/a> are similarly about change. Going back a few more weeks, we find Jenny picking up her lab and moving it<\/a>. Everywhere you look at Occam’s Typewriter, it’s all about the new.<\/p>\n

Never one to avoid easy blogging by riffing on what everyone else is doing, I’ll jump on this bandwagon with our very own lab move from our home of the past eight years at the MaRS Discovery District<\/a>, to the brand-new, shiny Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning<\/a>. Adventures in Wonderland<\/em> readers with long memories may remember my post from early 2012<\/a>, about Mr. Gilgan’s announcement of a $40 million donation to what most people were still calling the Research and Learning Tower. A year and a half later, the ribbon was cut, in a touching ceremony featuring the young patient profiled in this video<\/a>. Last week, I moved in to my office, and today marks the end of the move for the laboratory and the rest of our 70-odd person staff.<\/p>\n

\"13\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The move results in the mind-bending problem of having to remember to press “13”, rather than “14” in the elevator, although this really isn’t such a big problem as the three floors from 13 to 15 are joined by stairwells leading to an open atrium. Getting off at thirteen also provides a reminder of the tremendous efforts of Tim Hockey, who not only spearheaded the fundraising campaign, but also chose to make a personal donation to support our floor. Tim’s connection with our hospital, and in particular medical genetics research, goes a long way towards explaining his involvement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although the labs were still vacant until the equipment and people moved this week, the offices have been occupied since last Wednesday, and along with myself, our administrative staff, the students and postdocs, and the informaticians all moved in. Blanketed with warm, fuzzy wireless and surrounded by network infrastructure ten times faster than in the old building, we were set to go.<\/p>\n

\"Lab,<\/a>
\nThe lab, last week – awaiting its occupants.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Bioinformaticians\"<\/a>
\nBioinformaticians, hard at work outside my office.<\/em><\/p>\n

And now, things are piling up in the lab, with service technicians scurrying around our fleet of sequencers, microarray scanners, robotics, and other instruments. Students, postdocs, and technicians are carving out their bench space, and the happy babble of discussions about genes and mutations and experiments and analysis is filling the building’s airy, light and inviting interactive spaces. The grand opening events of September the 17th are a pleasant memory, and the work of making this new space work for us is just beginning. Arrivals and beginnings, indeed.<\/p>\n

\"DNA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tips\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Molecular<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Watchword<\/a><\/p>\n

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Black and white photographs: Voigtl\u00e4nder VF-101<\/a> with Ilford XP2 Super<\/a> film. Colour image: Nikon D5000 and Nikkor 35mm f\/1.8G. More photographs in this Flickr set<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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