Sh*t graduate students say
“Why isn’t this working”? “Should we go get coffee”? “We have some of *this* in our sample.” Here are a few phrases overheard in the NCSU Biochemistry department. In the video: Laura Edwards, Annette...
View ArticleUsing zebrafish to find human cancer drugs
My lab in the Department of Molecular & Structural Biochemistry and Dr. Jeff Yoder in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at NC State University applied for an award from the College...
View ArticleThe traveling biochemist: Cell death in Barga, Italy
A few weeks ago I attended my first Gordon Conference on Cell Death in Barga, Italy with my PI, Clay Clark. The conference was located in a beautiful resort nestled in the Tuscan hills off the beaten...
View ArticleFree energy in the woods
The Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics recently held its 26th annual meeting in Carbondale, IL. The Gibbs conference began in 1986 with a meeting to discuss the discipline of thermodynamics in...
View ArticleA Happy Glucose Holiday Season
If you don’t believe in pathways, you might want to listen. Each year in his biochemistry class, Dr. Jim Knopp sings “the glucose song.” This year, he had special visitors from Ladies in Red, an...
View ArticleLearning to speak IT
Recently one of our faculty contacted the IT department to inquire about how OIT (office of information technology) charges for network connections. OIT provides web services for the department, and...
View ArticleThe traveling biochemist: Enzymes, pathways, proteases, and homeostasis
As I’ve written before in this blog, one of the advantages of working in an academic institution is the opportunity of international travel. Science is a world-wide endeavor, and one should take...
View ArticleTo Exchange or Not to Exchange?
To Exchange or Not to Exchange? That is the question — at least for the graduate students participating in our Proteins Journal Club this semester (my apologies to those members of the Shakespearean...
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