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Cumol  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What science excites you?

We recently had a journal club where a colleague who works on Zebrafish introduced us to the CRISPR-Cas system. I had that same feeling of excitement that I had after watching Interstellar. This deep feeling of "we can accomplish ANYTHING"

Gives me shivers every time





Pribnow  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was invited to attend the weekly lab meetings of a lab on campus that's doing some interesting research into the physical structure of Cascade (CRISPR-associated complex for antiviral defence) and Csy-complexes. The lab unsurprisingly doesn't have any vacancies, but it'll be great to learn more about how the research is done and to keep up to date on its progress.

Here's some interesting reading:

http://www.montana.edu/mbi/facultyandstaff/wiedneheft/publications.html