I think the lab is in trouble. Jason went to get a PO number today so we could get some sequences run through ICBR (Jingda, who usually does our sequencing, is out of town for the next three weeks). He was denied, because we’re apparently broke. One of the senior fiscal people in the department was reported to have said that the department’s support of Tom is over.

Yikes!

I asked Tom about our funding situation after joint lab meeting (or, as the presenter called it, “supergroup meeting,” which I really liked). He said that we weren’t completely broke just yet, but that things were going to get tight. He claims that it’s the Dean’s Office money that is over and that there is still departmental money for our experiments. I’m not so sure. Tom is going to talk with the department’s fiscal person tomorrow. I’ll report whatever I hear.

Fuck a hairy duck.