Mark Polk

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Biophysics for cancer therapies in the Chodera Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Views are my own.

I’m standing on a walkway in the Diamond Light Source facility. The hall I am standing in is in the shape of a ring, and a portion of it — with exposed ducts and pipes — is visible behind me. A yellow beamline station can be seen behind me, on a level below the one I am on.
A microplate surfaces from an opening in the table. The Thermo Orbitor RS arm extends out and grips the plate. The arm retracts, and the plate is set down inside the Orbitor, which spins and regrips the plate in the portrait orientation. The Orbitor then brings the plate to a red carrier in the Tecan Freedom EVO 200.