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Keep in mind the format of grad school. Students are typically required to undertake 3 x 3 month 'rotations' in labs which are of interest to them. After this time, the student will choose a lab to actually undertake their graduate research. I did read somewhere the Annie had recently...

It's hard to say - but she was pretty early-on in her graduate career, so I would be very surprised if she was working on anything of that magnitude. I have not looked for Anton Bennett's (her boss) name in the patent database, so perhaps they were working on something with potential market...

Similar set-up here missjane. I have no problems believing this could happen. Depending on the size of her colony, she could have had an entire room to herself. R.C may have been the primary tech in charge of that room. I suspect he may have actually left the body in the room for some time while...

Ahh...that would make more sense. Good call! I was thinking he lost it in the room where the assualt was supposed to have occured.

Furthermore - who signs in when there is such an elaborate swipe-card system??

Weird - I wonder what sort of crevice they are referring to? Usually these sort of labs have little in the way of crevices to make them easier to keep clean.

Yep, one of the jobs of the animal tech is to monitor cage crowding. Usually the investigator is on top of that, but sometimes people lose track of things and the animal tech will call to alert you that the situation requires attention. Same is true of animals dying etc. It is not a...

Glad to see the case is progressing - hopefully everything has been done by the book and the DNA evidence is solid> "Workplace Violence" is rather alarming given that it ended in murder. I am sure Annie Le was not the first attractive, petite grauduate student that he helped maintain a mouse...

Yes! Great idea - something to keep in mind :eek:

Animosity towards "Ivy League brats" may be a factor, especially if he had been snubbed by Annie and/or other grad students in the past.

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/alleged_annie_l.php

I don't know the layout of the basement in Amistad, but here is something I wrote in another thread based on the layout of the rodent facility where I work: The suites in our facility are not too large, and have doors with small windows in them. It is possible for one person to work alone and...

This is from the Journal: Forensic Science International: Genetics (2009) UV irradiation and autoclave treatment for elimination of contaminating DNA from laboratory consumables Lisa A. Gefrides, a, , Mark C. Powella, Michael A. Donleya and Roger Kahna aHarris County Medical Examiner's...

I *think* autoclaving will degrade DNA, but maybe not to the point to where it becomes useless for forensic purposes. I did a quick Google search but could not find anything conclusive.

Not at all. The Bennett Lab is interested in a class of enymes (proteins) which are important in regulating how cells respond to extracellular signals - such as hormonal (eg: insulin) stimulation. Annie was basically interested in how these enzymes are involved in regulating metabolism, and this...