Monthly Archives: March 2013

Wednesday 03/06/13

9:50 A- 6:00P, 9:00P-10:00P (remotely) General receive and freeze Jeff’s CustomArray order configure Windows Backup to backup onto Drive D. Contact co-organizers about setting up Speaker’s List, Talk Titles, Activities Page, Transport Page. Embryo Work Flip Esc collection cage, ~11A … Continue reading

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Tuesday 03/05/13

9:50 A – 7:30 P, 8:30 P – 10:50 P General Discussing replies for Banff invites. Student substitutions add to bottom of list Still need to write more acknowledgement of replies. STORM Analysis launch analysis of all unprocessed datafiles. ESATA … Continue reading

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embryo sections

some sections lie nice and flat, others get substantial ripples. Is this knife compression? too large a section in x-y? (seems to correlate). Too thick a section? (seems also to be true in my experience).

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Monday 03/04/13

9:45 A – 7:30 P, 9:00 P-11:30 P General stuff Group meeting: see notes send out invites to Banff workshop Continue working on writing referee review Fly work flipped all bottle stocks tossed all Mat alpha tub bottles currently expanding: … Continue reading

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Michelangelo D’Agostino: Physics and presidential politics

Background harvard undergrad, berkeley PhD, worked on Icecube (neutrino detection) Approach neural networks and support vector machines to score liklihood of particular outcomes (neutrinos or voter stats) Data collection — mass profile data from Facebook / Twitter. Campaign organization Tech … Continue reading

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Journal club: Lee .. Ha, Science 2013

Jeff Moffitt Elastic coupling between RNA degradation and Unwinding by Exoribronuclease (Lee … Ha, Science 2013) Exosome at core of RNA modification / degradation in yeast. complex conserved through domains of life. called PNPase in bacteria some core elements of … Continue reading

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Protected: group meeting 03/04/13

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Sunday 03/03/13

10:00A – 1:00P, 6:00P – 7:45P, 9:00P – 11:00P Embryo Section staining Control test with AATAT worked. basic protocol No 92C pre-denature 60C 25 min minimal cooling gap. Add probe to slide, drop coverglass on, seal 94C heat-block 2.5 min … Continue reading

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Saturday 03/02/13

10:00A – 7:00P, 8:30P-10:30P Writing stuff Revised Banff Invites letter sent to co-organizers write to van Steensel about R code Review/referee article read clean through manuscript wrote up all critiques. To do: write up manuscript strengths and contributions to field. … Continue reading

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Updating Web Notebook: version management

Methods for version management: WP Document Revisions adds a new tab to main side widget (below Pages and Comments), called Documents. Under this tab you can upload files from your computer. These now behave has posts. Instead of editing the … Continue reading

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