Depressing
Category: Lab Life
... when you finish your experiment at 5:15PM then exit the microscope room and discover that it's pitch dark outside....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 5:20 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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From the bench top to the public square.
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Alex Palazzo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Toronto.
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October 31, 2006
How the hell does dynamin act to fuse membranes?
Category: Pure Biology
Jodi Nunnari's group has a paper in Cell about how Mgm1, a dynamin like protein found in the inner mitochondrial matrix, is required for inner-membrane fusion in mitos.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 2:18 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Moral Mind - NY Times Comment
Category: Misc
Just as Chomsky argued that we are endowed with a language instinct, Hauser proposes that we all have a morality instinct. In today's NY Times there is an article on his new book:
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:11 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 28, 2006
Saturday Morning Video
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Campaign ads? The whole thing reminds me of a Frank Zappa song.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 27, 2006
Letting Go of God
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Last night I saw Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God at the Sander's theatre. It was a great show. I won't go into too many details, but just to let you know, it's a longer version of the monologue that...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 4:45 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Spending Money in a Biomedical Lab
Category: Lab Life
What type of biomedical research costs the most? That is an interesting question. With the NIH asking for a 20% cut in everyone's grant, our lab has been looking into who spends what, and where can we cut costs. An...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:05 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Map That Campus XX
Category: Map that Campus
Yes, it's back. And for the 20th edition we have a nice pair for you. Any ideas on who they could be?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:52 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 26, 2006
The Best Science Television Show?
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
Born and raised in Canada, I have to say that there is one obvious choice: The Nature of Things. Almost every Canadian in my age group has a picture of David Suzuki seared on some part of their neocortex.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 5:28 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some Thoughts on Mitosis & Cancer
Category: Pure Biology
At that same meeting over the past weekend, I heard Tim Mitchison give an interesting talk about mitosis and pharmacogenetics. For any of you who don't know, Tim's lab has been at the fore front of analyzing how the mitotic...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:02 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 25, 2006
Why is every protein expressed in testes?
Category: Pure Biology
Does this type of expression profile look familiar? From my limited experience from these types of pan-tissue blots, it would seem like every damn protein is expressed in testes. Why?...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:10 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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