School Spirit
The Harvard University motto translates to this.
What is Truth?
It revolutionized molecular biology by allowing for the rapid amplification of DNA fragments.
What is PCR?
This is Kevin’s favorite drink.
What is Mountain Dew?
This former postdoc is the first author of the first paper ever published by the Haigis lab.
Who is Ken Lau?
Gregor Mendel established the laws of heredity using this model organism.
What is the pea?
Harvard is the oldest university in the United States, founded in this year.
What is 1636?
Mice have this many chromosomes.
What is 40?
Kevin was born in this country.
What is Italy?
This is the journal that the Haigis lab has published in the most.
What is Science Signaling?
She discovered transposons studying maize (corn) genetics.
Who is Barbara McClintock?
This, not Harvard, was the first medical school in the United States.
What is the Perelman School of Medicine?
Used as a counterstain with hematoxylin, eosin chemically reacts with these amino acids to stain cells red.
What are arginine and lysine?
In this movie, where the main character is named Kevin, a young boy is left behind when his family travels to Paris for the Christmas holiday.
What is Home Alone?
The famous Haigis et al. Nature Genetics paper was published in this year.
What is 2008?
This organism was the first eukaryote to have its genome sequenced to completion.
What is Saccharomyces cerevisiae?
It is the university with the most affiliated Nobel prize winners.
What is Harvard University?
Besides serine, threonine, and tyrosine, this is one of the six amino acids that can also be phosphorylated.
What are histidine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, arginine, lysine, and cysteine?
This baseball player's signed jersey hangs in Kevin's office.
Who is Don Mattingly?
He is the most frequent co-author of Haigis lab papers.
Who is Doug Lauffenburger?
Temin and Baltimore won the Nobel prize for challenging the central dogma of molecular biology through their discovery of this enzyme.
What is reverse transcriptase?
Mario Capecchi is a Harvard alumnus who won the Nobel Prize in 2007 for inventing this widely used laboratory reagent.
What is a knockout mouse?
In a cross of Fabp1-Cre ; Nras+/- x KrasLSL-G12D/+ ; Nras+/-, it is the frequency at which Fabp1-Cre ; KrasLSL-G12D/+ ; Nras-/- mice are obtained.
What is 0?
One of the rarest Nike sneakers in existence, it is designed by this famous musician.
Who is Kanye West?
This is the all time most highly cited paper from the Haigis lab.
What is Yang et al. Molecular Cancer Research 2013?
This Greek physician published the first theory of the cause of cancer, postulating that it was due to an excess of black bile.
Who was Hippocrates?