It's that time of the week. Let's try something a bit more challenging. Here is today's mystery campus:
Hint: How proteins get into these organelles.
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Let's end this year with a bang!
Here is this week's mystery campus:
hint: It's getting cold.
As usual, leave your answers in the comment section.
(although I screwed up last time, don't worry, Willie is warm!)
As we correct for the earth's rotation by adding a leap day, I'll add an extra campus to this week's edition of Map That Campus. (Yes two for the price of one!)
Here's the first mystery campus:
And below the fold is the second mystery campus:
hint:
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So another week has flown by.
Here is today's mystery campus:
hint: Turkey, what a fine bird.
Leave your answers in the comments section.
It's that time again.
Here is this week's mystery campus:
hint: fatal element.
As usual, leave your answers in the comment section.
This is challenging, Northwestern University doesn't have a river.
Gunter Blobel won the 1999 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for his work in protein targeting. I'll have to do some work to track down every place he ever worked.
Blobel has a special connection to Dresden, having led a restoration project for the Frauenkirche. I took a look at Google maps and see some similarity in the bridges to some in Dresden, but the surrounding buildings don't seem quite right. Blobel says:
Blobel was? is? at Rockefeller, but that doesn't look like the East river to me....
Wrong organelle.
University of Basel
Oh, it seems, I am too late to post the answer first...
I searched Pubmed and so I come to a 16 year old Paper by Baker et al. (Nature 1990, 605-9) about protein import into Mitochondria. And they worked at the Biocenter, University of Basel.
Why I did not post it? Because lunch - the primitve drive for food - intervened...
But next week ;-)
You may not be the first to post, but it looks like you're a shoe-in for most frequent.
Sorry for that! Was not my intention. I had obviously some problems with my browser... Won't happen again
Basel is correct! As for the connection between Basel and mitochondrial import, it goes way back before 1990. Basel was home the most important lab in that field. If you look up mitochondrial import in a textbook you'll find out whose lab I'm refering to (he retired about 5 years ago.)
Hi Michael,
I'm glad to hear from you. How do you like McGill? (And how is your apartment? did they finish renovating it?)
"If you look up mitochondrial import in a textbook you'll find out whose lab I'm refering to (he retired about 5 years ago.)"
That would be Geoff Schatz. He gave a talk at UCLA when I was in grad school - one of the 5 most amazing talks I have ever seen. Geoff was wearing a dark blue blazer. His talk was a 'chalk talk' about the nuts and bolts of mitochondrial import. The first thing to cross my mind was, 'there's *no* way this guy will finish this talk without covering his blazer in pink and blue chalk'.
His blazer was spotless at the end.