Love Interests
One cup of green peas has ~100% daily value of this essential vitamin.
What is vitamin C?
Bisco's first microbiology gig was developing a PCR-based assay to detect spoilage bacteria in this type of beverage. (Bisco was very popular among his college friends that summer.)
What is beer?
In 2019, Bisco set a personal best for this number of miles (slowly) jogged in a year period (± 10mi).
What is 1,000 miles? (And 135,000+ ft of elevation!)
Bisco's given name, Norbert, translates to "Northern Brightness" in this language.
What is German?
Bisco met his wife, Erin, while they were graduate students at Washington University in StL. Erin did her thesis work on the role of sulfur in the morphological switch of this fungal pathogen. (Hint: UCSF's Anita Sil did a sabbatical in her graduate lab.)
What is Histoplasma capsulatum?
Bisco's first job was at age 10 where he served as a ball boy for the men's basketball program of this university.
What is the University of Colorado?
Former WashU colleague and landlord(!), Prof. Wyndham Willoughby Lathem is awaiting trial for the grisly murder of a former boyfriend. After fleeing Chicago, Wyndham eventually turned himself into authorities in this city.
Where is Oakland, California?
The word actin is derived from the Greek word actis. Actis roughly translates to this meaning.
What is "beam" and/or "ray"?
Bisco's 8th grade girlfriend, Betsy Read, was coincidently also Jane Coffin Childs fellow and now a professor at UC-Irvine. She did her thesis work at UC-Berkeley in this PI's lab (visual clue!).
Who is Graham Fleming?
Bisco was an ASM summer undergraduate fellow that worked at Tufts University in a lab run by this former (first ever) graduate student of Dan Portnoy.
Who is Andy Camilli?
Bisco's great grandmother Lillie Minoka Hill (mother of Norbert I) was the second ever female Native American to be awarded this graduate degree in 1899.
What is a medical degree?
The word "Bizco" is a pejorative Peruvian slang word for Strabismus, a vision condition better known as this.
What is cross-eyed?
Bisco's high school sweetheart, Kate Von Trapp, was a descendant of Baroness Maria Von Trapp whose memoir was made into this 1965 Film Musical.
What is the Sound of Music?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!
In college, Bisco worked part time at the cheese counter of a Whole Foods Market. During his lunch breaks, this was his favorite activity.
What is improperly reorganizing the dry goods aisles to severely irritate his Whole Foods nemesis, a dry good stocker named Ben Ewell.
In 2004, Bisco and a dozen of his friends started a non-profit called 'Paddle for the Presidency' in which they canoed 3,000+ miles down the Mississippi River to promote youth voting ahead of the Presidential election involving this Democratic nominee.
Who is John Kerry?
Bisco named the marinum actin-based motility factor, in part, after the former space station Mir. The Russian translation of "mir" is this.
What is "Peace"?