Great progress

This week, because Tony is back and the Hamilton technician is here, I have enough spare time to really focus on the QC training. It has made a huge difference.
This morning I was shown to a plate and told to come and ask if I had any questions. I made all the forms found and created the right reagents and templates, ran the PCR machine programs, analysed the results and did the gels by myself.
I definitely needed confirmation on the analysis step but got all but one well right.
Now I am learning the results phase with lots of minutia about which files to upload and where to put finished analysis. I feel great about this. The uploading is the final step and is the only one I cant do on my own (baring unforeseen disaster.).
I am not fast and I am not confident but I do think if I needed to I could now cover for someone in QC if they got sick tomorrow.
I think with another week of this amount of time, I wont dread the upcoming vacations.

Here is the RT2 and Methylation plate I got this morning.