FISH
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Actual Science, Maybe
Friends, Romans, Lab Members
If It Ain’t Broke, It’s Only A Matter of Time
200

The purpose of ethanol in the Raj Lab FISH Protocol

Permeabilization

200

Arjun’s Bee order

Pork Over Rice, Spicy

200

The word that used to trigger the “have you tried turning it off/on again“ response

Problem

200

The name of the most recent major telescope launched by NASA

James Webb

200

The bay with the fewest occupants currently in the lab

Laura's bay

200

The only lab fridge or freezer not named after a lab pet

Azurill

400

Certified Raj Lab fish guy

Robert Amar 

400

Arjun’s official title on his office door

Distinguished Professor of Ordering Takeout Lunches

400

A quantity of bees that is kind of complicated to get

Half a Cup

400

The person that the first ever cloned mammal was named after

Dolly Parton

400

The youngest person currently on the lab website

Pranav/Sean (we are not sure :))

400

The number of birds in the Nimbus logo

Turns out it’s two

600

This person beat a reef shark in a "race" during Shark Week

Michael Phelps

600

Arjun’s Alma Mater

UC Berkeley/NYU

600

The name of this Slack reaction:

:squirrel:/:shipit:

600

The last year that Pluto was considered a planet

2006

600

Arjun's first PhD student

Marshall Levesque

600

The last time the Raj Lab cold room was functional

March 2022

800

The fish said to appear just before natural disasters, according to Japanese folklore

Oarfish

800

Arjun’s Arjun(s)

Sanjay Tyagi/Charles Peskin 

800

The number of yeehaw-cat reactions currently in the lab Slack

11

800

The year the youngest island in Japan was formed

2023

800

The middle-age lab member (as in, the lab member in the exact middle if we are all ordered by age)

Pav

800

The smartest financial decision anyone in this lab has ever made

The IncuCyte Service Contract

1000

The type of fish featuring these fine spots: 

Rare Spotted Handfish

1000

Arjun’s second choice for Orion’s name

Elio

1000

The oldest non-archived channel in the Slack that isn’t one of the defaults

#repositories

1000

This spice has hallucinogenic properties in large enough quantities

Nutmeg

1000

The Raj Lab certified okay-est beer

Coors Light

1000

The attribution for this classic cloning bench quote “Blind we are, if the creation of a clone army we could not see.”

Alf from “Alf” (1986)

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