{"id":180,"date":"2005-09-09T10:48:27","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T10:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=180"},"modified":"2005-09-09T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T10:48:27","slug":"3-days-in-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/09\/09\/3-days-in-stanford\/","title":{"rendered":"3 days in Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that my 3-day-trip to Stanford is already over. Since last Sunday, under orders from the commandant, I was sent to Palo Alto on an assignment to learn an electroporation technique from a lab at Stanford. This, I had thought, meant having a chance to bask in that California sunshine, munch on some fresh fruits, and maybe even catch up on some papers while lying beside a swimming pool as beautiful women play volleyball in their bikinis. =P But alas the experiments turned out a lot more time-consuming than I had anticipated. And without a car, I was pretty much limited to the lab and the hotel. Nevertheless, my hosts were gracious enough to put me up at a pretty nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanfordterraceinn.com\/\">place<\/a>, and even treated me to a luxurious dining experience at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threeseasonsrestaurant.com\/\">The Three Seasons<\/a> in downtown Palo Alto. I was also happy to meet up with some old college friends, and even finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0393058581\/qid%3D1126244685\/002-6788993-9011247\">The Elegant Universe<\/a>, an undertaking almost a year in the making. Hopefully, the technique will prove useful and breathe some life back into my experiments back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that my 3-day-trip to Stanford is already over. Since last Sunday, under orders from the commandant, I was sent to Palo Alto on an assignment to learn an electroporation technique from a lab at Stanford. This, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/09\/09\/3-days-in-stanford\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}