After 9 years in Sweden our family has now returned to Germany. We are starting our new life in Heidelberg and I started working as a Research Technician in Hennig Group at EMBL in January 2016.
In Taipale group, together with the other Lab Managers , I shared the responsibility for the organization of the sequencing unit. This job included the maintenance of two Illumina HiSeq 2000 next generation DNA sequencing instruments in addition to sequencing different libraries for our scientists and for KHTC customers. My job also included the day-to-day laboratory operations, performing various molecular biology assays and performing large-scale purification of recombinant proteins for different binding studies and X-ray crystallography.