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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.
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daniel13:
mmmdoughnuts.
you should french press coffee on your bunsun burner...
I enjoyed your company the other night--even though i was half asleep...
later
skull

[Edited on Feb 02, 2004 1:35PM]
Feb 2, 2004
legionnaire:
I love that you quoted Principal Skinner - I actually have that same exact quotation printed out and taped to my desk in the lab.

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? biggrin

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?
Feb 2, 2004

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