Monthly Archives: February 2011

Protected: Quantifying shadow variation

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Thoughts on how dual enhancers combine

As a further fruitful exercise, it might be worth considering: if the failure rates are not multiplicative, what else could be going on?  Here are three alternatives: 1. If enhancer A failed to induce in a given because the whole … Continue reading

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Friday 02/11/11

9:40 A – 8:00 P, 11:00P – 12:30 A Image analysis: largely confounded by stage drift due to thermal expansion. Working on response to reviewers,

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Microscopy and Image analysis errors

Scope 8 micron systematic shift in z position on thermal expansion during laser scanning. The second position acquisition on all the following overnight sessions and on are incomplete: 02-08-11: MP09_22C_y_hb, MP10_22C_sna_y, 01-31-11: MP10_sna_y_22C, MP10_sna_y_22C_b. Threshold of .01 leads to classification … Continue reading

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Thursday 02/10/11

10:00A – 7:00P, 8:00P – 12:30A Biophysics planning meeting.  Read proposals and write reply (see post). hack away bug that introduces a non-integer y-offset that turns images into noise after the 4 gig mark on a single image file. More … Continue reading

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Protected: Image Analysis

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Biophysics IGERT grant student panel

My notes in prep for next student committee meeting to provide critical feedback for improving the Berkeley Biophysics training program. Possible objectives for core curriculum, (motivated from From IB grant: Part 1. customized core curriculum guided by IGERT mentoring teams.) Working … Continue reading

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Wednesday 02/09/11

8:50A — 4:00P, 9:00P – 12:00A Sequences for y-int and y-full came back correct, both are +/+ with m13R seq primer. fog null x hkb-fog line 2, only 1 in 90 male rescues.  Males are only 1 in 4 of … Continue reading

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Protected: Progress Report

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Measuring variation

red cells have more than 1.35 the mean level, blue Now blue is 1/2 the mean and red is 2x the mean, and we plot the difference between sog and ths for two successive different choices of the threshold defining … Continue reading

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