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"Jones
Lab is a mixture of the old days—you can see remnants of the
old days of the building—with more modern biology. It has all
these chemicals, PCR [Polymerase Chain Reaction] machine, refrigerators.
It was built in 1890 and it's actually the original building
at Cold Spring Harbor. It was first used to bring marine biological
specimens into the lab to study. It has a very high ceiling, which
I imagine was to keep it cool, providing natural refrigeration for
the specimens since there was no refrigeration at that time.
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"Every
morning we sit down and discuss all of our ideas and how we would
explain the results of our experiments. The information on this board is
the place we post ideas. We also note general maintenance information on
the board. We post different ideas that are floating around on the
drawing board; we typically write ideas over and over and try to formulate
them and then we test them. These ideas flow from what we see in our
experiments. Each person is doing a different set of experiments and
comes up with different ideas to try to explain the things seen in
the experiments. We write them down here and talk about them.
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"The
tools that we use are inside these modules. A number of these modules
were built in 1975. They allow us to do our sensitive electrophysiological
experiments. They are isolated vibrationally because our experiments
are very sensitive to vibration."
—Roberto Malinow, neuroscientist working
in the Jones Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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