The purpose of ethanol in the Raj Lab FISH Protocol
Permeabilization
Arjun’s Bee order
Pork Over Rice, Spicy
The word that used to trigger the “have you tried turning it off/on again“ response
Problem
The name of the most recent major telescope launched by NASA
James Webb
The bay with the fewest occupants currently in the lab
Laura's bay
The only lab fridge or freezer not named after a lab pet
Azurill
Certified Raj Lab fish guy
Robert Amar
Arjun’s official title on his office door
Distinguished Professor of Ordering Takeout Lunches
A quantity of bees that is kind of complicated to get
Half a Cup
The person that the first ever cloned mammal was named after
Dolly Parton
The youngest person currently on the lab website
Pranav/Sean (we are not sure :))
The number of birds in the Nimbus logo
Turns out it’s two
This person beat a reef shark in a "race" during Shark Week
Michael Phelps
Arjun’s Alma Mater
UC Berkeley/NYU
The last year that Pluto was considered a planet
2006
Arjun's first PhD student
Marshall Levesque
The last time the Raj Lab cold room was functional
March 2022
The fish said to appear just before natural disasters, according to folklore
Oarfish
Arjun’s Arjun(s)
Sanjay Tyagi/Charles Peskin
The number of yeehaw-cat reactions currently in the lab Slack
11
The year the youngest island in Japan was formed
2023
The middle-age lab member (as in, the lab member in the exact middle if we are all ordered by age)
Pav
The smartest financial decision anyone in this lab has ever made
The IncuCyte Service Contract
The type of fish featuring these fine spots:
Rare Spotted Handfish
Arjun’s second choice for Orion’s name
Elio
The oldest non-archived channel in the Slack that isn’t one of the defaults
#repositories
This spice has hallucinogenic properties in large enough quantities
Nutmeg
The Raj Lab certified okay-est beer
Coors Light
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)