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Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Evil Cheese - 04-22-2012

(04-22-2012, 07:21 PM)Live-Free-Or-Pie link Wrote: Saw the Phoenix Wright movie this weekend in DC. Two word review:

FUCK. YES.

Best vidjagame adaptation ever. Saw it again next day.

Indeed it was awesome with just the right amount of camp. I'm a little disappointed in the lack of Cornered theme though. The music was a big part of the series for me and while they did touch on most of the themes for some reason Cornered was absent.


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Saxxy - 04-24-2012

YAY YAY YAY my PI has officially accepted me into his lab!  I had been hella stressing about it because he was being so PC/fair about it (4 other people are also trying to get into the lab, and he's weirdly nice for a prof so he doesn't want to hurt people's feelings/crush their dreams etc.), so now maybe I can sleep a bit better.

oh who am i kidding i'm just gonna stress about finals now

but yay! Big Grin


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - kaese - 04-24-2012

(04-24-2012, 11:36 AM)Saxxy link Wrote: YAY YAY YAY my PI has officially accepted me into his lab!  I had been hella stressing about it because he was being so PC/fair about it (4 other people are also trying to get into the lab, and he's weirdly nice for a prof so he doesn't want to hurt people's feelings/crush their dreams etc.), so now maybe I can sleep a bit better.

oh who am i kidding i'm just gonna stress about finals now

but yay! Big Grin

Congrats! What is your research?


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - CaffeinePowered - 04-24-2012

(04-24-2012, 11:36 AM)Saxxy link Wrote: YAY YAY YAY my PI has officially accepted me into his lab!  I had been hella stressing about it because he was being so PC/fair about it (4 other people are also trying to get into the lab, and he's weirdly nice for a prof so he doesn't want to hurt people's feelings/crush their dreams etc.), so now maybe I can sleep a bit better.

oh who am i kidding i'm just gonna stress about finals now

but yay! Big Grin


woo \o/


Now does this mean your PhD is basically paid for by the school while you do research and teach?


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Saxxy - 04-24-2012

Research: I'm joining a microbial evolution lab, my PI was previously worked with the E. coli Long-term Experimental Evolution project, so we do a lot of stuff like "hey, can you evolve a microbe to incorporate unnatural amino acids into it's proteins?" or "can a microbe evolve to be a better evolver?"

I don't have a solid, this-is-exactly-what-i'll-do project yet, but the broad outline is going to be what i'm calling "genomic remixing".  There are a lot of systems out there in nature and in labs that can transfer genes between microbes.  Generally this happens at a pretty low frequency, but there's a species of marine microbes that produce these virus-like particles called "gene transfer agents", which could potentially be used to shift relatively large amounts of DNA from a host strain to a recipient strain.  It depends on how these viral-like particles actually interact with the cell they're "infecting", but it has been shown that these guys can infect species that are like, way the hell not related to them (its kinda like the animal equivalent of a jellyfish transfering genes to a human).

Also, I'll be investigating a couple genomic systems to select for microbes that 1) lose large chunks of their genomes (whole or multiple genes at a time), or 2) duplicate chunks of their genome.

And whatever else I have time for/money/energy for, I guess.

Funding: Yeah, it depends on how much funding my PI gets, but I'm paid to be in the lab doing experiments, writing papers, etc.  We're required to do at least one semester of TAing, and it can be more depending on how our funds are.  But yeah, I'm making that sweet sweet grad school cash Wink the pay and stress suck, but I'm doing something I love and to a large extent i'm my own boss aside from what the actual boss-man wants.  Tradeoffs, yo Smile

let's see how happy i am next year, when I'm taking my prelims! Tongue


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Versus - 04-24-2012

nice


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Didzo - 04-24-2012

(04-24-2012, 04:32 PM)Saxxy link Wrote: Research: I'm joining a microbial evolution lab, my PI was previously worked with the E. coli Long-term Experimental Evolution project, so we do a lot of stuff like "hey, can you evolve a microbe to incorporate unnatural amino acids into it's proteins?" or "can a microbe evolve to be a better evolver?"

I don't have a solid, this-is-exactly-what-i'll-do project yet, but the broad outline is going to be what i'm calling "genomic remixing".  There are a lot of systems out there in nature and in labs that can transfer genes between microbes.  Generally this happens at a pretty low frequency, but there's a species of marine microbes that produce these virus-like particles called "gene transfer agents", which could potentially be used to shift relatively large amounts of DNA from a host strain to a recipient strain.  It depends on how these viral-like particles actually interact with the cell they're "infecting", but it has been shown that these guys can infect species that are like, way the hell not related to them (its kinda like the animal equivalent of a jellyfish transfering genes to a human).

Also, I'll be investigating a couple genomic systems to select for microbes that 1) lose large chunks of their genomes (whole or multiple genes at a time), or 2) duplicate chunks of their genome.

And whatever else I have time for/money/energy for, I guess.

Funding: Yeah, it depends on how much funding my PI gets, but I'm paid to be in the lab doing experiments, writing papers, etc.  We're required to do at least one semester of TAing, and it can be more depending on how our funds are.  But yeah, I'm making that sweet sweet grad school cash Wink the pay and stress suck, but I'm doing something I love and to a large extent i'm my own boss aside from what the actual boss-man wants.  Tradeoffs, yo Smile

let's see how happy i am next year, when I'm taking my prelims! Tongue

What university are you at?


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Versus - 04-24-2012

(04-24-2012, 07:29 PM)Didzo link Wrote: [quote author=Saxxy link=topic=3603.msg243645#msg243645 date=1335303160]
Research: I'm joining a microbial evolution lab, my PI was previously worked with the E. coli Long-term Experimental Evolution project, so we do a lot of stuff like "hey, can you evolve a microbe to incorporate unnatural amino acids into it's proteins?" or "can a microbe evolve to be a better evolver?"

I don't have a solid, this-is-exactly-what-i'll-do project yet, but the broad outline is going to be what i'm calling "genomic remixing".  There are a lot of systems out there in nature and in labs that can transfer genes between microbes.  Generally this happens at a pretty low frequency, but there's a species of marine microbes that produce these virus-like particles called "gene transfer agents", which could potentially be used to shift relatively large amounts of DNA from a host strain to a recipient strain.  It depends on how these viral-like particles actually interact with the cell they're "infecting", but it has been shown that these guys can infect species that are like, way the hell not related to them (its kinda like the animal equivalent of a jellyfish transfering genes to a human).

Also, I'll be investigating a couple genomic systems to select for microbes that 1) lose large chunks of their genomes (whole or multiple genes at a time), or 2) duplicate chunks of their genome.

And whatever else I have time for/money/energy for, I guess.

Funding: Yeah, it depends on how much funding my PI gets, but I'm paid to be in the lab doing experiments, writing papers, etc.  We're required to do at least one semester of TAing, and it can be more depending on how our funds are.  But yeah, I'm making that sweet sweet grad school cash Wink the pay and stress suck, but I'm doing something I love and to a large extent i'm my own boss aside from what the actual boss-man wants.  Tradeoffs, yo Smile

let's see how happy i am next year, when I'm taking my prelims! Tongue

What university are you at?
[/quote]

UT austin


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Saxxy - 04-24-2012

(04-24-2012, 09:22 PM)versus link Wrote: [quote author=Didzo link=topic=3603.msg243678#msg243678 date=1335313773]
[quote author=Saxxy link=topic=3603.msg243645#msg243645 date=1335303160]
Research: I'm joining a microbial evolution lab, my PI was previously worked with the E. coli Long-term Experimental Evolution project, so we do a lot of stuff like "hey, can you evolve a microbe to incorporate unnatural amino acids into it's proteins?" or "can a microbe evolve to be a better evolver?"

I don't have a solid, this-is-exactly-what-i'll-do project yet, but the broad outline is going to be what i'm calling "genomic remixing".  There are a lot of systems out there in nature and in labs that can transfer genes between microbes.  Generally this happens at a pretty low frequency, but there's a species of marine microbes that produce these virus-like particles called "gene transfer agents", which could potentially be used to shift relatively large amounts of DNA from a host strain to a recipient strain.  It depends on how these viral-like particles actually interact with the cell they're "infecting", but it has been shown that these guys can infect species that are like, way the hell not related to them (its kinda like the animal equivalent of a jellyfish transfering genes to a human).

Also, I'll be investigating a couple genomic systems to select for microbes that 1) lose large chunks of their genomes (whole or multiple genes at a time), or 2) duplicate chunks of their genome.

And whatever else I have time for/money/energy for, I guess.

Funding: Yeah, it depends on how much funding my PI gets, but I'm paid to be in the lab doing experiments, writing papers, etc.  We're required to do at least one semester of TAing, and it can be more depending on how our funds are.  But yeah, I'm making that sweet sweet grad school cash Wink the pay and stress suck, but I'm doing something I love and to a large extent i'm my own boss aside from what the actual boss-man wants.  Tradeoffs, yo Smile

let's see how happy i am next year, when I'm taking my prelims! Tongue

What university are you at?
[/quote]

UT austin
[/quote]

omg stalker


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Versus - 04-24-2012

(04-24-2012, 10:46 PM)Saxxy link Wrote: [quote author=versus link=topic=3603.msg243685#msg243685 date=1335320548]
[quote author=Didzo link=topic=3603.msg243678#msg243678 date=1335313773]
[quote author=Saxxy link=topic=3603.msg243645#msg243645 date=1335303160]
Research: I'm joining a microbial evolution lab, my PI was previously worked with the E. coli Long-term Experimental Evolution project, so we do a lot of stuff like "hey, can you evolve a microbe to incorporate unnatural amino acids into it's proteins?" or "can a microbe evolve to be a better evolver?"

I don't have a solid, this-is-exactly-what-i'll-do project yet, but the broad outline is going to be what i'm calling "genomic remixing".  There are a lot of systems out there in nature and in labs that can transfer genes between microbes.  Generally this happens at a pretty low frequency, but there's a species of marine microbes that produce these virus-like particles called "gene transfer agents", which could potentially be used to shift relatively large amounts of DNA from a host strain to a recipient strain.  It depends on how these viral-like particles actually interact with the cell they're "infecting", but it has been shown that these guys can infect species that are like, way the hell not related to them (its kinda like the animal equivalent of a jellyfish transfering genes to a human).

Also, I'll be investigating a couple genomic systems to select for microbes that 1) lose large chunks of their genomes (whole or multiple genes at a time), or 2) duplicate chunks of their genome.

And whatever else I have time for/money/energy for, I guess.

Funding: Yeah, it depends on how much funding my PI gets, but I'm paid to be in the lab doing experiments, writing papers, etc.  We're required to do at least one semester of TAing, and it can be more depending on how our funds are.  But yeah, I'm making that sweet sweet grad school cash Wink the pay and stress suck, but I'm doing something I love and to a large extent i'm my own boss aside from what the actual boss-man wants.  Tradeoffs, yo Smile

let's see how happy i am next year, when I'm taking my prelims! Tongue

What university are you at?
[/quote]

UT austin
[/quote]

omg stalker
[/quote]

yukkii <3 <3


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Saxxy - 04-24-2012

(04-24-2012, 10:53 PM)versus link Wrote: [quote author=Saxxy link=topic=3603.msg243710#msg243710 date=1335325612]
[quote author=versus link=topic=3603.msg243685#msg243685 date=1335320548]
[quote author=Didzo link=topic=3603.msg243678#msg243678 date=1335313773]
[quote author=Saxxy link=topic=3603.msg243645#msg243645 date=1335303160]
Research: I'm joining a microbial evolution lab, my PI was previously worked with the E. coli Long-term Experimental Evolution project, so we do a lot of stuff like "hey, can you evolve a microbe to incorporate unnatural amino acids into it's proteins?" or "can a microbe evolve to be a better evolver?"

I don't have a solid, this-is-exactly-what-i'll-do project yet, but the broad outline is going to be what i'm calling "genomic remixing".  There are a lot of systems out there in nature and in labs that can transfer genes between microbes.  Generally this happens at a pretty low frequency, but there's a species of marine microbes that produce these virus-like particles called "gene transfer agents", which could potentially be used to shift relatively large amounts of DNA from a host strain to a recipient strain.  It depends on how these viral-like particles actually interact with the cell they're "infecting", but it has been shown that these guys can infect species that are like, way the hell not related to them (its kinda like the animal equivalent of a jellyfish transfering genes to a human).

Also, I'll be investigating a couple genomic systems to select for microbes that 1) lose large chunks of their genomes (whole or multiple genes at a time), or 2) duplicate chunks of their genome.

And whatever else I have time for/money/energy for, I guess.

Funding: Yeah, it depends on how much funding my PI gets, but I'm paid to be in the lab doing experiments, writing papers, etc.  We're required to do at least one semester of TAing, and it can be more depending on how our funds are.  But yeah, I'm making that sweet sweet grad school cash Wink the pay and stress suck, but I'm doing something I love and to a large extent i'm my own boss aside from what the actual boss-man wants.  Tradeoffs, yo Smile

let's see how happy i am next year, when I'm taking my prelims! Tongue

What university are you at?
[/quote]

UT austin
[/quote]

omg stalker
[/quote]

yukkii <3 <3
[/quote]

that's an anime thing right


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - CaffeinePowered - 04-24-2012

Quote:[quote author=Saxxy link=topic=3603.msg243713#msg243713 date=1335327070]
yukkii <3 <3

that's an anime thing right
[/quote]

It means he's going to rape you in your sleep


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - matter11 - 04-24-2012

(04-24-2012, 11:19 PM)Caffeine link Wrote:
Quote:[quote author=Saxxy link=topic=3603.msg243713#msg243713 date=1335327070]
yukkii <3 <3

that's an anime thing right

It means he's going to rape you in your sleep
[/quote]
Saxxy is asking for it with his slutty wardrobe


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Versus - 04-25-2012

(04-24-2012, 11:19 PM)Caffeine link Wrote:
Quote:[quote author=Saxxy link=topic=3603.msg243713#msg243713 date=1335327070]
yukkii <3 <3

that's an anime thing right

It means he's going to rape you in your sleep and then kill you
[/quote]


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Dr. Zaius - 04-25-2012

bersus your signature has anime chick smoking a weed pipe

day made


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - A. Crow - 04-25-2012

when I loaded it was a terrorist from Counter Strike shooting President Obama in the head with the stars and bars in the background.  Now, I can't get it to pop back up so I can send a screen cap to the secret service...  Sad


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - matter11 - 04-25-2012

two days ago: started doing 5-finger pushups to strengthen fingers for rugby. Can barely manage to get a shitty set of 5 before fingers feel like they'll break.
yesterday: did a set of 5 well
today: did 10

8) gainz


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Vlambo - 04-25-2012

That feel when grades come out and you did WAY better than you thought.

Fucking raped my finals, and now I qualify for workterms. SHOOP DA WOOP


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Surf314 - 04-25-2012

Got a job  ;D


Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Kirby - 04-25-2012

(04-25-2012, 06:46 PM)Surf314 link Wrote: Got a job  ;D



Congrats!


Now do you begin that spiral of being a soulless lawyer, or did that already start in school?