strikinghelix

I'm trying to piece together everyone i met on Wednesday. Did i talk to you at Flatiron?

Too much stimulation. Oh yeah

Yeah, I know what you mean about not wanting to make definitive statements about evolution (or science in general.) I think that's one of the reasons why scientists are often perceived as being wishy-washy and not having any backbone, because so few things in science are definite that they usually don't want to take a strong stance on anything.

Your work sounds interesting - I didn't realize people were doing much expression profiling on plants. Are you interested in nitrogen fixation? And are you guys using Affymetrix arrays, or spotted arrays? That technology is pretty cool, it seems like people are often coming up with creative applications of it.

My work is basically a whole animal approach to molecular biology - my lab has a mouse knockout of a gene called CRD-Neuregulin. My project is to figure out what are the effects of knocking out that gene at a particular synapse in the brain (the inferior olive to deep cerebellar nuclear synapse) where it's normally expressed, at a molecular level, an electrophysiological level and a whole-animal behavior level. So I get to do lots of different kinds of experiments, it's pretty fun. Are you in school?