Grass Lab 2011: July 2011

Monday, July 25, 2011

A scary saturday..

Last saturday, during the storm, the centralized vacuum stopped to work!
On the right you can see my recorded current, and my face, during the disaster!!

BUT..

Storm, you can't stop me!
below there's my homemade solution to continue the recordings!!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Father and son triathalon

Faster than an action potential, more powerful than a compressed CO2 tank, able to make hundreds of solutions in a single week...Grass lab visitor, Tim Wright, and son Nick (future Fellow to be?) after successful completion of the Falmouth triathalon.

grass lab musings...

Naively asked of Jade-
"Where is the Northeast bldg of Harvard that you work at?"

"Swinging or throwing like a European is prohibited on the softball field!"
- Sparky, Grass lab softball manager

"They like adventures- just different kinds." - Toots & Puddle

"In Naples, there is even a squid mafia."
- Luca appreciating the MRC

"Did you spend some time in the tanning saloon?"
- Felix's Swiss English

"God doesn't need gloves!" (corollary- God doesn't need knives either)

"If you cut out the cerebellum, you lose the soul." (more proof that Decartes was wrong)

"Swope is the definition of delicious" - Grass Lab's Anton Ego

"Well the fish is dead, right now....."
- Liz mentoring an undergrad

"It's amazing how often I find myself dumpster-diving" (what does this say about NIH funding?)

"Maybe it's an IN VIVO artifact? ..."I'm a dish guy"
- witty slice banter

"It's generally inhibiting"
- answer to the question "How do you make the GABA current exciting to the general public?"

"Here is some Broilerplate prose to use in a rejection letter..."
- advice from Animal Behaviour editorial staff to new reviewing editor Tim Wright

"I HATE nature!"
- Isaac vs mosquitoes

"The fellow's food stipend is too much, there's an uneaten popover."
- a director's astute observation

"He used to tell me bedtime stories about parasite life cycles"
-Isaac on his Dad as an inspiration for his scientific career

"A calyx isn't a calyx isn't a calyx"
- Steph's new appreciation of the vestibular system

"There seems to be very minimal error....or there is very consistent error"
- savvy data summary

"Send a LABALL, i've been recording from an incredi-cell for the last 2 hours"
- Dr. Meitzen's orders

grass advisors say the darndest things...

"Find a big problem, then get it wrong." - John Nicholls

"Save water, drink margaritas"
- Kravitz's motto

"Particle motion moves the utricle which moves the eye?"
- Bob Baker relating different grass projects

"I call myself a MURine biologist"
- MBL's Josh Hamilton

A tribute to Rudolfo Llinas-
"Consciousness is a pre-motor event"

"How about averaging your thoughts?"
"If you think it's averaging, then you're already dead."

"It's not a chicken or the egg question, it's a bad question!"

"It's snot that stays in place"
- ie. the construct is exocytosed

To Raquel's toadfish-
"Does it have pants on?"

"I don't care about human beings, what fascinates me most is cytoplasm."

Friday, July 29, 2011

ISAAC B.

Happy Birthday Liz

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Don't call me baby (squid!)

Monday, July 25, 2011

A scary saturday..

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Father and son triathalon

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Science

Freedom!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

FANTASTIC !

Friday, July 8, 2011

Now that's a ground!

Monday, July 4, 2011

Direct from the catwalks of Milan....

Saturday, July 2, 2011

and now a new coffee machine...

Friday, July 1, 2011

Why you should never leave the lab.