First Science Buzz Lunch in Building 1, Mixer Room, 5-11-12

Today we held the Science Buzz Lunch in Building 1, Mixer Room, for the first time.

Topics discussed included:

1) The functional importance of the black eye stripes in various birds: their contribution to success in hunting while facing into the sun.

2) Procedures and equipment needed to isolate +36 GFP

3) Catching and rearing insects to be used as food for Sclegel's Green Tree Frogs

4) Possible functional differences between normal nucleic acids and nucleic acids with altered sugars produced by synthetic biology

5) Experiments attempting to immunostain sponge proteins with antibodies prepared against conserved human and mouse antigens

6) Speculations about the evolutionary origin of the amnion and placenta


Please join us next time if you can!