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Christmas party etc.

Please share/finalize your ideas for party location gift exchange lab present

Journal club on 9/25

We will all read two short articles about Cystic Fibrosis: Couzin-Frankel J. The promise of a cure: 20 years and counting. Science. 2009 Jun 19;324(5934):1504-7. Pearson H. One gene, twenty years. Nature. 2009 Jul 9;460(7252):164-9. Each one of us will then pick one of the following topics, elaborate the discussion by reading an additional latest […]

Lab Meeting 2009-7-28

Please make a recommendation for a funny paper for our lab meeting on 2009-7-28. Please have you recommendation submitted by 2009-7-23 and we will vote on 2009-7-24. NO eye papers please! Be as creative as you can!!

July 21st Lab Meeting

Please make a recommendation for a serious scientific paper for our lab meeting on 2009-7-21. Please make all recommendations by 2009-7-16 and we will vote on which paper to read on 2009-7-17. Get real creative!!!!

New zebrafish book coming!

I have requested our library to buy this new book, which contains a lot of useful information (Link to Amazon. Table of contents is available here). This includes several chapters on making transgenic fish (ask me if you need more information) and advanced imaging techniques.

Journal club on 7/2

Please suggest your favorite paper by making a comment here. Once everyone has made a suggestion, we will vote for it. Let’s decide by this Thursday 6/25. Thanks!

Journal club on 6/4

Please suggest your favorite paper asap by making a comment here. Once everyone has made a suggestion, we will vote for it. Let’s decide by Thursday. Thanks!

Outings

I am proposing an outing later in the summer, and we may ask the 2nd floor people to join in. In fact I have talked to some people about this idea. We can also come to my place for movies from time to time. Feel free to write your suggestions here.

What kind of toy should we get?

I have been thinking that air hockey or table tennis would be fun. I would love to have a Wii around, but we don’t have a convenient projector system in the common room… I believe Liyun’s office would be a great location to put in the new installment.

Our blog’s name

Please reply to this post and suggest the name that you think would be appropriate for the blog. I thought of … WonderBlog… but it has been used as the names for several blogs already…