All About Kate

In The Lab

100

Who's lab am I in?

Dr. Ray

200

Which type of cancer did I research in Dr. Osipo's lab?

HER2+ breast cancer

300

I work with HEK293T cells. What does HEK stand for? (100 pts per word)

Human embryonic kidney

400

I study the interaction of 2 membrane proteins. What are they? (200 pts for each)

5-HT4 and ADAM10 (alpha secretase)

500

Name one biophysical technique for studying membrane proteins.

FRET, CIR, Cryo-EM, X-ray Crystallography, Cryo-ET, Mass Spectrometry, ssNMR...

British History

100

In what year did England get invaded by the Normans/William the Conquerer?

1066

200

Who is my favorite of Henry VIII's wives?

Anne of Cleves

300

What is the name of the first king of a united England?

Æthelstan

400

What did Queen Victoria keep of her husband Prince Albert after he died?

A plaster cast of his hand

500

Name all 7 kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy.

Wessex, Essex, Sussex, East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, Kent

Science!

100

What does ASBMB stand for?

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

200

What is my favorite microbe?

Vibrio cholerae (cholera)

300

Name the 3 types of Black Death plague infections. (100 pts for each)

Bubonic, pneumonic, septicemic. 

400

John Snow discovered how Cholera was spread at what site in London?

Broad Street pump

500

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for what research?

Protein design and protein structure prediction

Formative Moments

100

What college did I want to go to but got waitlisted at?

Case Western Reserve University

200

What sport did I try out for an not make freshman year of high school?

Volleyball

300

In the same school year I both got lice and broke my hymen on a scooter board. What grade was I in?

6th grade

400

What did my Uncle Matt call me when I was 8 years old?

Manipulative

500

A movie I watched as a child gave me re-occuring nightmares that my parents would turn into what?

Lobsters