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I doubt it's because you haven't finished in 3 years - just because it's not finished at all. Someone who has completed the PhD is guaranteed to have one, and can probably start straight away, and focus entirely on the job. Imagine if you got 20 (I wish!) applications, and 19 of them had completed their PhDs and one hadn't - who would you shortlist?
If you're working with cells, it could be anything really! I take it you've checked if you're growing them in the same stuff, not using too late a passage etc? Are the incubators working ok? Do you use any buffers that may be out of date? Any other chemicals etc. that may be out of date? Pipettes that may not be calibrated? Any substances that you use that are slightly different (i.e. from different suppliers) to the ones the postdoc used?
I have no idea what kind of experiments you are doing btw, just when you mentioned cells it just made me think of how many variables there are ;-)
That's awful, and I really don't know what you should do. If there is anyone at your uni (postdocs, other staff) who will look at your presentation, then definitely get it organised asap. I'd probably e-mail him again, and phone him while he's still there.
I'd offer to look at your slides but I'm probably in such a different field that it would be no use :p
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