Lab Quotes

"On a lighter note..."

  • "It's just a hot mess of signaling" ~ Fred, on a particularly complex signaling pathway
     
  • "My mind and my mouth are not connected" ~ Keehun, struggling to find the right words
     
  • "Place drunk; align sober" ~ Lisa, on figure design
     
  • "I haven't really thought about it, I guess my default option is academia" ~ Keehun, to his comittee meeting on his career aspirations
     
  • "Oh my god!" ~ Keehun (on not realizing he was giving group meeting)
     
  • "I'll just take an Uber from Park Rapids" ~ Keehun (on figuring out a ride to the Lake Itasca Biological Station)
     
  • "I have been aliquoted for journal club." ~ Keehun (addressing the group in lab meeting)
     
  • "The biggest danger is having a hypothesis you want to prove." ~ Shiv
     
  • "This is like herding cats, but all the cats have PhDs" ~ Mike
     
  • "It's the end of an era." ~ Rabia (on her departure)
     
  • "Never check sequencing at 7pm on a Friday." ~ Ruth 
     
  • "Sort of like getting crabgrass that is ISO certified." ~ Mike (on ISO certified HeLa cells)
     
  • "For this paper, we did not do any drugs" ~ Rabia (on the GPCR manuscript)
     
  • "Making it in science is like being popular in high school." ~ Shiv
     
  • "I think I just talked myself into cloning 10 more constructs." ~ Ruth 
     
  • "Have you accepted Steve Jobs as your personal lord and savior?" ~ Mike (on the ubiquity of Apple products)
     
  • "This is not that hard." ~ Ashwin (on everything related to Biology)
     
  • "You just have to put the DNA in there, right?" ~ Ashwin (on transfections)
     
  • "It shouldn't take that long." ~ Rizal (on proteins)
     
  • "To facilitate a quick turnaround, I will handle this personally and will NOT send for further review." ~ An Editor
     
  • "Star it up!" ~ Shiv (on statistics)
     
  • "Express proteins. Not emotions." ~ Mike
     
  • "Desks, bench, pipettes, buffers, 4C, cells, borrowed, computers and backups, blood sacrifice, acid/bases, drawer labels, toss junk, last will and testament, and shiv's mugs..." Mike's To-Do List (on the move to UMN)
     
  • "End of times, here be dragons and madness." ~ the end of Mike's calendar for moving to UMN