I am sooooo proud of Gabriel..

Today he  defended his senior honors biochem thesis . His thesis is titled Cross Talk Between IKAROS and RUNX1 in Myeloid Leukemia . It describes the work he’s done over the last 2.5 years with Dr Jess Heath, a wonderful pediatric oncologist. The work explores  the role of two proteins in the evolution of  a particular form of leukemia .Here is the smiling (near) graduate wiht his momma and his advisor Jess. 

Gabe wore a periodic table sock and a beer sock today for good luck ..  .. and it worked ! We heard form Gabe and Jess that his defense went great ! Lots of tough questions.. and a great outcome !  

I’m so proud of the  work Gabe’s done. He’s  developed deep lab skills and learned so much in the process of doing some very important sceince. The report is really an amazing read. It outlines the experimental path that Dr. Heat, Gabe and his colleagues used to validate their hypothesis that these proteins play an important role in the mutations that cause this type of cancer. I’d love to  include the  paper here, but I can’t include the paper here because its part of a paper that is being published in a journal for the American hematological  Society which Gabe will be listed as a co-author.  When it comes out, I’ll blog on that too

On the way back to Gabes I found 20 Euro cents on the ground.. how strange is that ? 

also rna into my freinds paul and pal on the way 

then met up with friends John B. Lauren. John M , Newt and Duane in honor of John B (aka Gizo’s birthday !) . 

nice day.. 

so proud of Gabe !

nite all, nite sam

-me

 
My apologies… I tried to post this last night but something was wrong with the website. Trying again
 

Our friends Phil and Lizzie were here this week and they poitned us at this great video posted by our mutual good friend VInce. It’s of all three of our favorite old Pub in Braishfield UK. It was called the Newport.. I don’t think it’s there any more.. but it was such a great place. We used to go there often when we lived in england.. We’d run there from work (10 miles round trip). and go there to play Conkers.. .. (chestnut wars) .. 

It brings back great memories. 

Vince wrote of it:

This was my all-time favorite English pub, The Newport. It was in the countryside in Braishfield village, Hampshire. It was like this every Friday and Saturday night apart from the two guys in smocks who weren’t regulars (not a comment on their digestive system).
Around 9pm the formidable, and wonderful, landlady, Janet would take to the piano and the rest of the evening was a sing song. It felt like you had stepped through a time warp into the 1940s.
And the beer was good too. Horndean Special Brew.
Sadly Janet has passed on, and the pub is gone too (I think). So this is in loving remembrance of Janet and the special place she made.

it’s a long video.. but you quickly get the point. One special thing for all of ius is that you can hear Vinces wife Catherine.. the only american voice you here.. singing away loudly..

Catherine died last year.. . she was such a fun person. it’s wonerful to hear her having so much fun here !

nite all, nite sam

-me

My good friend Nadja shared this with me a few weeks back after we were talkign about the wonderful way that German words are created. You jsut keep concatenating the words t omake these crazy long compond nouns. THis is one of the best.

sorry there’s no translation.. btuit it’s basically about a woman named Barbara who makes great Rhubarb pie. SHe opens a bar that attracts soem barbariens as regular customers. The barbarians have really cool beards They bring in a thirsty baber to groom  their beers. WHich leads to them serve beer in the bar. where they hire a barmaid called Barbel.. and there you have it

Rhababerbarbarabarbarbenbarenbartbarbierbierbarbarbel !

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hi

enjoy !

nite all, nite sam

-me

I kept most of today off in honor of a visit of our good friend Phil and his girlfriend Lindsay. Phil has been a good friend of ours for the last 36 or so years. Used to work for IBM in hers leave England… And with your in Burlington for a while. Then we lived in England… And we’ve been good friends ever since . This is our first time meeting Lizzie and she is so lovely. It was so much fun catching up on old times… And hearing about all the stuff that is happened in the many years since we’ve last seen each other

Looking forward to being with them again tomorrow.

Night all , night Sam
– me