Winner of the 2012 Lab Grammys

M. Grabiner, et al. 2011. Grad school, I love you (but you’re bringing me down): parody of “New York, I Love You (But You’re Bringing Me Down)” by LCD Soundsystem.

Are my primers forming dimers?

Ph.Diva and The Mystery Band

Here Comes Science

“Here Comes Science” is a CD + DVD full of great songs about science by They Might Be Giants. Check it out!

Not so smart.

Not so smart.

Can you figure out what I was trying to teach today? I don’t think Smartboards were made with molecular biologists in mind. At least we found a use for cursive writing?

Tip of the iceberg

My students should be glad I don’t require them to know ALL of the components of signaling pathways. And this is just one of many complex signaling pathways in a cell!

Tiny tadpoles

Frog embryos in Developmental Biology.

Non-automated

Cross pollinating my Arabidopsis plants today. I forgot how tedious this is to do by hand, under the microscope.