{"id":1201,"date":"2009-11-30T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2009-11-30T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:08:12","slug":"jurassic-park-meets-barnes-science-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2009\/11\/jurassic-park-meets-barnes-science-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic Park Meets Barnes Science Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by George Eckhardt<\/p><\/div>\n

New Assistant Professor of Biology Emilie Gray may be surprised by the efforts that CC inadvertently made to help support her research.<\/p>\n

This summer the old animal suites in the Barnes Science Center basement were remodeled into a multiuse biology\/chemistry\/anatomy lab, and the adjoining labs were remodeled to improve ventilation and to better meet the needs of current faculty, including new faculty hire Gray. Gray, who holds a Ph.D. in ecophysiology from the University of California-Irvine, specializes in the study of mosquitoes.<\/p>\n

The remodeled lab includes an area Gray uses that facilities services calls \u201cthe mosquito room,\u201d which has light colored, welded seam vinyl flooring.<\/p>\n

In a turn of events that not even Michael Crichton could have scripted, when the vinyl flooring was installed, the installer spotted a real mosquito embedded in the surface of Gray\u2019s flooring, apparently trapped there during the manufacturing process. \u201cYou can see the body, legs, and wings as if it were embedded in clear glass. The mosquito must have been rolled into the liquid vinyl material,\u201d says George Eckhardt, assistant director of facilities.<\/p>\n

Gray earned her M.Sc. in environmental studies from the University of Orleans and the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon in France, and wrote her thesis in French. She says having the embedded mosquito in the lab is \u201cla cerise sur le gateau\u201d (the cherry on the cake). That\u2019s certainly better than a fly in the ointment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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