devmonster

Things I need to do within the next 36 hours: 

1) Write up my annual PhD candidate progress report.

2) Convince a leading opiate addiction expert that I can construct a tractable thesis project centered on the effects of chronic opiate exposure on the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.

3) Convince a leading stem cell expert that I can construct a tractable thesis project centered on the effects of chronic opiate exposure on specific stem and progenitor cell compartments within the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.

4) Convince a leading chromatin biology and epigenetics expert (and potential Nobel laureate) that I that I can construct a tractable thesis project centered on the effects of chronic opiate exposure—as mediated by alterations in chromatin structure and epigenetic machinery—on specific stem and progenitor cell compartments within the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.

5) READ READ READ so that I can do 2, 3, and 4 without sounding like an idiot.

So I’m gonna be super responsible and have a Red Stripe at 2:40 in the morning. 

Sadness: 15 Minutes of Worf Being Put Down, Denied, and Made Fun of on Star Trek: The Next Generation

Thanks, Barrett!

Need to read all of these so that I can formulate a lesson plan for the second session of my PI’s stem cells crash course tomorrow. 

• Highly Efficient Reprogramming to Pluripotency and Directed Differentiation of Human Cells with Synthetic Modified mRNA
• Telomere Lenth and iPSC Reprogramming: Survival of the Longest
• Balancing Out the Ends during iPSC Nuclear Reprogramming
• A Transcriptional Roadmap to the Induction of Pluripotency in Somatic Cells
• Disease-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
• Neural Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cels Follows Developmental Principles but with Variable Potency

wilwheaton:

Saw this on Reddit, and I don’t know who did the original.

OH MY GOD THE TATTOO!

This approach is a basic component of the drug addiction genetics project I’m working on right now, only I work with extant humans. 

Definitely worth a view if you’re interested in human origins.

He names fucking Ununoctium. What a champ!

Go ahead. Look me dead in the eye and tell me that this isn’t the best scene in the history of Trekdom. 

And just like that, my Summer Netflixing is made so much more fulfilling.

sadstartrek:

Spock melds his mind with Picard, who had previously melded with Sarek, so he can remember himself through the eyes of his deceased father.

TNG Season 5 Episode 8 “Reunification II”

This moment!

Cell culture…

…for the first time in a long time. Hope I don’t contaminate everything.

Someone thought she could hide in those magazines!

Oh my face? She just told me I’m not supposed to be alive. What’s up with that?!

Last weekend, my mother sent me home with two boxes of shit from high school and college. I’m just now going through them.

As a testament to my nerdery, I’d like to point out some of the more notable items…

• organic chemistry notes
• show choir yearbooks
• pictures of me and my friends at band camp
• several issues of Star Trek Magazine (what? don’t hate)

It’s a good thing I had okay self-esteem as a teenager.

A few feet of Tygon tubing, a couple of inches of Teflon tape, and twenty minutes of epoxy fumes later…gravimetric filtration for all.