Danesh Sayings
In one of our recent last lab meetings, a paper focused on Hi-C interactions, what word would you use to describe the claims?
What is 'idiotic'
Faculty member that studies proteomics, a common collaborator
Who is Steve Giggy?
The nitrogen base found only in RNA
What is Uracil?
You want to find if there are specific cellular pathways upregulated or downregulated
What is RNA-seq
Yizhe described his most recent findings during lab meeting, Danesh was opposed to describing the findings as....
What is "weird"
Faculty member that developed a commonly used technique to predict RNA structure in Jonathan Weissman's lab (hint: parents were rockstars)?
Who is Silvi Rouskin?
This bacterial gene regulation model includes an operator, promoter, and, structural gene (most famous auto-regulation example)
What is the lac operon?
This technique allows you to identify chromatin accessible regions of the genome
What is ATAC-seq?
You show Danesh your data, what is one thing he will always ask...
Where are your controls?
Faculty member who has studied octupus?
Who is Corey Allard?
Published "On the Origin of Species"
Who is Charles Darwin
A sequencing method that uses reversible terminator nucleotides and florescence detection
What is Illumina Sequencing?
Who walk into Danesh's office to meet 1:1...how do you know the meeting is likely over
What is "Alright, name of person"
(acceptable answer: no more words)
Faculty member who has a great voice and loves to sing Frank Sinatra
Who is Davie Van Vactor?
Meselson and Stahl are credited with the model that a parent-strand and daughter-strand are produced after a round of replication, the term for this model is called
What is semi-conservative
This super-resolution microscopy method uses flourescently labeled DNA oligonucleotides to visualize cellular structures beyond the diffraction limit (blinking)
What is Oligo STORM?
If you were to study only one molecule, let's say, RNA, what could you be considered?
What is ' misguided'
Who is Tom Rapoport?
Credited with the finding that genes are located on chromosomes using fruit flies
Who is Thomas Hunt Morgan?
This assay quantifies protein concentration based on Coomassie dye binding
What is Bradford assay?