Lab Tour!

Trying to document grad school one KZbin video at a time, from lab equipment to genetics lessons to interviews with other students! Each week is a new view into life as a grad student, and the rollercoaster that is getting a PhD.
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Music:
"Marty Gots a Plan" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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(All thoughts and opinions are my own and do not reflect the thoughts or opinions of my institution.)
Thank you to DCMP for captioning! www.dcmp.org

[@myrest3334]

hahaha I love that sad piece of paper that says "corrosive acids". so menacing and weak at the same time...

[@nellSab]

For a corrosive acid label, it's quite basic...

[@jeremymcadams7743]

@@nellSab thank you

[@thefishyfish8544]

aaaaaah I absolutely love this video and the energy of the tour. I hope your PhD is as fun as it looks!

[@supergoku1515]

Happy your back. I enjoy your enthusiasm and videos 👍

[@user-wf3iw1qv4x]

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.

[@Illogic69]

I would love to see a time-lapse from you working in the lab. Think it could turn out quite cool :)

[@AppliedScience]

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.

[@jaredgoff4561]

You made this video a lot of fun to watch! Looking forward to watching more!

[@Sasori_n]

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.

[@netdlsr]

I love Your passion for science! Keep doing this videos.

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

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! :-)

[@sssophyst]

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

[@esdraslopez4658]

I. Freakin. LOVE. This channel. PLEASE keep up your AMAZING work!

[@user-vp7jr2ho2v]

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.

[@hellopanda135]

i love your channel!! thank you for providing this kind of content on youtube.

[@hellopanda135]

and it's gonna be so awesome for your future phd holding self to look back at these videos haha

[@pleasedontdoxme6237]

Thank you for the extra effort of the captions

[@wethecurious]

This was really interesting, Alex! I wish there were more lab tours like this around KZbin, it would be fascinating to compare different labs. I hope we get to meet your labmates some time. - Ross

[@AlexDainisPhD]

+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.

[@Tomonkey4]

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?

[@AlyBaumgartner]

This makes me so happy! As a paleontologist, my lab space looks VERY different and it's cool to see where other people science!

[@AlexDainisPhD]

+Aly Baumgartner Aw man, I would love to see what *your* space looks like! I've never been in a paleontology lab!

[@timlsi6327]

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!

[@idoussia]

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 :)

[@ricarleite]

Maybe do a time lapse of you working?

[@jephthahjoseph8539]

that would be cool

[@supersmashsam]

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!

[@Markovisch]

Looooove the tour!

[@Abdullah-mt9ns]

best lab tour ever

[@SciJoy]

easternblot is awesome. Also really liked the tour.

[@gregoriobernardo2503]

Beautiful place., and tools., and aparatus.,

[@veganbackpacking-8559]

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?

[@espanol9942]

Your lab tour is pretty good.

[@xja85mac]

Labs are loud, but a kind of loudness that helps you focus, except when you go to the other room to inject a sample...

[@C0nc0rdance]

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!

[@AlexDainisPhD]

+C0nc0rdance Using tape as a gel pouring dam is my favorite lab tape use! For some reason it feel very MacGyver-esque.

[@SoutherStacker007]

Great video Alex. -From Auburn University.

[@bobafett7558]

Interesting, smart and funny. Thank you! :)

[@AliJardz]

Loved this.

[@anamoon5796]

omg...so cool the place you work

[@RoadRunnerMeep]

Love the setup :)

[@cadenericson3730]

Can you do a detailed lab tour like opening every drawn and showing us everytjing?

[@ricardoguzman114]

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.

[@krustok]

Great video!

[@mainlytrombone]

SO PUMPED for this new season of Alex Dainis on KZbin - looks like it's going to be super interesting! :-D Thanks for bringing us in to your world, Alex! :-)

[@charlesdauphin3324]

Brings back memories... Nobody works on weekends at your place, or did you film this during an evacuation exercise?... :^p

[@altaroffire56]

Awesome video! I'm glad the wall we didn't see actually has a window. Until now your lab seemed really claustrophobic.

[@altaroffire56]

I also love your printer talking to the world...

[@The_Mendoza]

What is this loud refrigerator and why is it so loud? ;-)

[@rgalt5675]

You should talk about your lab mates sometime. My favorite part of grad school were the long discussions and arguments with them.

[@momsmushroomsjodyfoster5786]

I thought you’d mention a laminar flow hood? But, hey waaaaay cool lab!! I’m very jealous .

[@notsyort]

Question: How often does the glass disposal bin get used? Or is that question too personally embarrassing? :-D

[@user-kn4ly6zs6l]

Really helpful and informative

[@luyang7033]

Your lab is soooooooooooo big!

[@thabangramokoena6229]

Was that a hemocytometer. Such compacted chemicals placement

[@kingofcobwebs]

Plastic shields are important! It probably saves someone in your lab a lot of headaches.

[@Calciferic]

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)

[@thePirateQueenKt]

+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

[@stanlymanly2]

Its been 3 years since your last lipsync montage. Thinking of making a new one? :D up the ante a bit?

[@NikolajLepka]

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

[@alisonroxx9]

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!

[@Lucassymons]

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?

[@AlexDainisPhD]

+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 :(

[@bilalsahid4747]

love your voice

[@gregoriobernardo2503]

High technology equipment and beautiful., it's completely

[@noviannovian1938]

Wow this video make laboratory living is quite interesting

[@rzgre7611]

I am crazy about labs and this video 😻😻

[@haymaroo3577]

how to differentiate bioharzard waste and general waste?

[@zionbhat9296]

Where is this lab located.

[@oscarramos2397]

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

[@XSpImmaLion]

The KZbin algorithm recommended me this video, and I got to see Alex 8 years ago. xD

[@ivyzhang674]

Are the photos towards the back of you the dissected heart LOL?

[@sirhenry4634]

What kind of autoclave for sterilization?

[@aileronster]

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???

[@AlexDainisPhD]

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!

[@xxxdnaskatexxx]

Badass!

[@blackmetalwarrior3697]

Cool, great lab. You are so cute and cheerful. Thanks for your videos, I like it.

[@marctelfer6159]

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.

[@oliviaharlow3866]

What's her accent? I only notice it sometime but some words she says sounds Irish or something

[@denyesha2158]

I hope I will have my own laboratory

[@rrozinak]

What exactly are you working on?

[@mjnyc8655]

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.)

[@briancabactulan7391]

Hi can you tour the entrance of your Lab?

[@georgeh5075]

That music is my life

[@AhsanUllah-ie8ml]

I want to do my Master and phD research in such a well furnished Lab...IA

[@onur2133]

I NEED TO TIDY THAT PLACE UP OMG

[@AlexDainisPhD]

You and my lab manager both agree 😂

[@davidsweeney111]

Nice vid Alex! What kind of lab is that, a genetics lab?

[@ChelseaJeanBentley]

+Fox Mulder yes she says that in one of her earlier videos :)

[@mastershooter64]

Most energetic grad student be like

[@heinzbeanzcool]

Epiccccccccccccc

[@OnwardToMail]

Never would have thought a lab would be so messy and cluttered haha.

[@Mrtrigrhappy]

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.

[@cynx56]

kept waiting for a jump scare :)

[@rzgre7611]

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

[@watzerenauffe]

Where the frickin heck is the PCR?

[@hottamale180]

why dont u use eppendorf pipettes

[@nathanielbailey9274]

Wheres the autoclave? You don't just give all your beakers aluminum hats for no reason right?

[@Timothy.Hutama]

wah why is that pipette on its side at 1:53 :(

[@E-N-sy1mi]

The room in my dreams...

[@veenibik336]

It looks messy, just like my life. I still dont know what job shall i get in the future

[@victorndolo2378]

amaizing would love to work at such a laboratory #soequiped #adventurelab

[@itsreeah2663]

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

[@soulcatch]

What are you studying?

[@MSgCapuaHVthPRS]

What is the name of that microscope

[@derriusbranch8620]

Hello Hi Nice video. Great looks. Looks great. Nice review. Go Smart things. Mr. Branch

[@khylaloviesseperez7188]

In need to make an chemical laboratory and I was waiting for the 3rd and 4th row but thts all hahaha

[@crazyfilipinopilot3065]

You are a chemical engineer? or Biologist? sorry I'm new to your youtube channel.

[@JohnCashin]

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.

[@XNaturalPhenomenonX]

dude. you are cool.

[@BritishTightEnd]

Which uni

[@Dr.Yousif-]

Like that . Feed us more 😀

[@toncheri7681]

What is your profession? You're cool!!