Tuesday Jan 27, 2004

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LIKE THE SVRGEON - THE COMPOSER SLASHES OPEN THE BODY OF HIS FELLOW MAN - REMOVES HIS EYES - EMPTIES HIS ABDOMEN OF ORGANS - HANGS HIM VP ON A HOOK - HOLDING VP TO THE LIGHT ALL OF THE BODY'S PALPITATING TREASVRES - SENDING A BVRST OF LIGHT INTO ITS INNERMOST DEPTHS

My hands are not pretty.
I bite the skin on my fingers enough so that they are always rough and scarred. There are scabs here and there from where I have ripped divots out of my flesh. I have calluses from years of kung fu. I currently have two blisters from playing drums, and one extra-special blood blister from pinching myself with pliers last night.

I have to be careful about how I touch someone or else what was intended as a gentle caress will be rough and irritating.

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the burlesque show tomorrow.

More later.
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3030v:
I'm trying to piece together everyone i met on Wednesday. Did i talk to you at Flatiron?

Too much stimulation. Oh yeah wink
legionnaire:
Yeah, I know what you mean about not wanting to make definitive statements about evolution (or science in general.) I think that's one of the reasons why scientists are often perceived as being wishy-washy and not having any backbone, because so few things in science are definite that they usually don't want to take a strong stance on anything.

Your work sounds interesting - I didn't realize people were doing much expression profiling on plants. Are you interested in nitrogen fixation? And are you guys using Affymetrix arrays, or spotted arrays? That technology is pretty cool, it seems like people are often coming up with creative applications of it.

My work is basically a whole animal approach to molecular biology - my lab has a mouse knockout of a gene called CRD-Neuregulin. My project is to figure out what are the effects of knocking out that gene at a particular synapse in the brain (the inferior olive to deep cerebellar nuclear synapse) where it's normally expressed, at a molecular level, an electrophysiological level and a whole-animal behavior level. So I get to do lots of different kinds of experiments, it's pretty fun. Are you in school?

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