I was sharing a story withdaniel13 and optimistress the other night about how I used to go to work with my mom at Grady Memorial Hospital(for those unaware, that's Atlanta's hospital for the indigent; no one with money goes there). She worked in the neonatal intensive care unit, so I got to see lots of crack babies. I was telling them how I saw a few babies with some sort of staph infection that made them unsafe to touch directly for fear of contagion. It made their skin a little white and crusty, kind of like a doughnut.
That's a great image. Why don't you all just imagine this: lots of little glazed chocolate doughnut babies. Now go forth and rejoice.
I have to pull an all-nighter at the lab tonight. How many trips will I make for Waffle House coffee tonight, I wonder? I predict at least 3 large cups, probably 4. Sweet Jeebus!
Tonight I will be quantitatively analyzing roughly 100,000 cells of data, mathematically transforming the results several times, and then collating the results in a spreadsheet.
Envy me.
Ah, yes...writing down numbers, paying attention, being careful...science has it all.
That's a great image. Why don't you all just imagine this: lots of little glazed chocolate doughnut babies. Now go forth and rejoice.
I have to pull an all-nighter at the lab tonight. How many trips will I make for Waffle House coffee tonight, I wonder? I predict at least 3 large cups, probably 4. Sweet Jeebus!
Tonight I will be quantitatively analyzing roughly 100,000 cells of data, mathematically transforming the results several times, and then collating the results in a spreadsheet.
Envy me.
Ah, yes...writing down numbers, paying attention, being careful...science has it all.
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you should french press coffee on your bunsun burner...
I enjoyed your company the other night--even though i was half asleep...
later
[Edited on Feb 02, 2004 1:35PM]
Impressive sleuthing by the way, you were spot on in figuring out which lab I'm in. I'm guessing you're in the Paterson lab at UGA?
The Neuregulin/Schizophrenia connection right now is the hottest thing in molecular psychiatry. And we're trying to capitalize on it as much as possible. There have now been 5 independent familial genetics papers establishing linkage (with good LOD scores) between the two. The intracellular signaling stuff is coming from my other advisor's lab (two mentors) Dr. Talmage - he published a paper in J. Cell Biol last year showing how the cytoplasmic domain of Neuregulin seems to be involved in a novel signaling pathway involving the gamma-secretase complex. The Schwann cell stuff was done a few years ago, and was one of the ways that CRD-Nrg was discovered (one its original names was SMDF - Schwann cell Maturation and Differentiation Factor.)
Finished in May, huh? Lucky. I'm only in my 3rd year, I've probably got another 2 left until I'm done. Doing a postdoc?