Lab Fab • Season One
Posts from the first Lab Fab season, 2014 - 2015, while I was a member of the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology at the University of Nottingham. Note! The posts are listed in reverse chronological order; that is, from the last one to the first one.
Lab Fab season 2
Sunday, 18th October 2015 11:51pm
August 2 Twilight on the Trent
In which I wrap up my year at CPIB and try to see the future through the gloaming.
Sunday, 2nd August 2015 1:51pm
July 26 Experimentation with bells on
In which experiments during my final week at CPIB are described in loving and doubtlessly excessive detail.
Sunday, 26th July 2015 6:24pm
References for communication talk, July 22
Tuesday, 21st July 2015 12:39pm
July 19 End game
In which I describe going four for four on roots and some loose ends.
Sunday, 19th July 2015 5:53pm
July 5th - I got rhythm
In which I return to the stable root velocity profile problem and describe the results of a forray into numerical analysis.
Sunday, 5th July 2015 5:03pm
June 24 Data: Cooked and Raw
In which I rant about fetishizing raw data!
Wednesday, 24th June 2015 10:47am
June 14th, Stem and variations
Where two experiments are described: cutting segments under water (them, not me) and finding out which position on the stem is the hottest.
Sunday, 14th June 2015 12:27pm
June 7th Auxin, microtubules, and growth, redivivus.
In which the subsquent adventures of my rant about auxin, microtubules, and growth are recounted.
Sunday, 7th June 2015 7:01pm
May 31st The squozen experiment
In which the astounding variation of growth in the maize mesocotyl becomes less astounding but remains obnoxious
Sunday, 31st May 2015 5:52pm
May 24th Rhythms and blues
In which plots thicken -- or at least mulitply -- there are three of them. Rhythms in root growth and stablity therein vie for our favors.
Sunday, 24th May 2015 5:23pm
May 17th, Peas in the dark room
In which segment waviness on acid (is this the plant intellignce equivalent of a halucination?) is exemplified with a figure.
Sunday, 17th May 2015 3:07pm
May 5th, the little things in life
In which I conclude my own ad hoc quest for patterns and recount adventures slicing up sunflower and cucumber stems.
Sunday, 3rd May 2015 10:16am
April 27th Not safe for late night viewing...
In which I bring my dark-vision costume into the light.
Monday, 27th April 2015 11:13am
Sunday April 19th: The straight and narrow on the inside track
Sunday, 19th April 2015 5:40pm
April 11th, Back to my roots
Sunday, 12th April 2015 8:48am
Sunday April 5th: Theme and variations
Sunday, 5th April 2015 4:43pm
March 29th Acid trip
Sunday, 29th March 2015 4:23pm
March 22nd: Getting out of the barrel
In which the barrel gets emptied but thirst for accuracy remains.
Sunday, 22nd March 2015 12:36pm
March 8th Ruling the unruly
Wherein the segment revolt is described and efforts to quell described
Sunday, 8th March 2015 10:07am
March 1: Getting to grow you.
In which meocotyls do well and anti-sugar crusaders might garner solace
Sunday, 1st March 2015 5:34pm
Feb 22: Coleoptiles on parade
In which I regale readers with tales of a successful experiment...
Sunday, 22nd February 2015 2:29pm
Feb 15th Another Error
In which I highlight a song by Nick Baskin about the same thing.
Sunday, 15th February 2015 12:17pm
February 8th, A proper face palm
Sunday, 8th February 2015 9:02am
Jan 25th Data
In which my first, actual, accomplished, stem growth experiment is lovingly described
Sunday, 25th January 2015 5:28pm
Jan 18th Dark dark dark
Sunday, 18th January 2015 8:39pm
Sunday Jan 11th Back to the lab
In which is recounted the bright side of working in the dark
Sunday, 11th January 2015 5:15pm
Dec 29th A thought experiment for the holidays
In which the empty self-aggrandizement of the University press release is outed and alternatives suggested.
Monday, 29th December 2014 12:45pm
Dec 21st Nature smack-down
In which phase two of the Nature paper take down is described with only a little gloating.
Sunday, 21st December 2014 5:22pm
Dec 14: Distraction action
Juices flowing at the prospect of Nature debunking! Are the juices fresh squeezed or billious? You decide...
Sunday, 14th December 2014 11:50am
Dec 7th: Blog robbery
In which I account for today's microscopic entry.
Sunday, 7th December 2014 7:54pm
30/11 The cold darkness of the Universe…
Sunday, 30th November 2014 1:24pm
November 23: Out-reaching for the skies
How do oats, peas, beans, and barely grow? In which I describe my efforts to give a Knowledge Transfer Seminar to enlighten the local non-academics about life in the Lab-Fab universe.
Sunday, 23rd November 2014 5:42pm
16/11 Great British Bioscience Festival
In which Lego meets the joy of discovery
Monday, 17th November 2014 12:20pm
9th of Nov: On the fruitful harvest of knowledge
My outsider's take on some issues relating to responsible research innovation. Hint: I am skeptical.
Monday, 10th November 2014 3:38pm
2/11 Lines of sight
In which we learn how Hoagland's rules, lines down the middle of the root may wobble, and pinholes might look sharp but reveal little...
Sunday, 2nd November 2014 3:05pm
26/10 Futzing
Sunday, 26th October 2014 2:58pm
19/10 Slowly ramping up
Where the fun of growth medium and tricky lighting is described
Sunday, 19th October 2014 5:15pm
12/10 Crunching crunching crunching
Where an interesting prompt from Gerrit is revealed
Sunday, 12th October 2014 4:31pm
5/10 Real data at last
Where actual results are presented. The root velocity profile appears stable as a waterfall
Sunday, 5th October 2014 3:59pm
28/9 A holiday
Sunday, 28th September 2014 4:35pm
21/9 Velocity Atrocity
Where we begin to learn about the highs and lows of root velocities.
Sunday, 21st September 2014 9:36pm
14/9 A diversity Problem
In which I rant about the individualistic tendancies of the maize seedlings and introduce readers to the word, mesocotyl
Sunday, 14th September 2014 9:36pm
To kill a meniscus
Where the meniscus isn't really killed but ins and outs of fluorescence and the confocal version are discribed
Sunday, 7th September 2014 1:10pm
The problem of the meniscus
Where firefly flashes and the growth of stems are introduced and problems with apparatus.
Sunday, 31st August 2014 10:23am
The Yawn of Time
Of N-dimensional hypercubes and a calculated enzyme rate
Monday, 25th August 2014 11:31am
Experiment one -- A rose by another name
Where lab weed is defined and fluorescent marker proteins explained, at least a little.
Tuesday, 19th August 2014 10:08pm
Laboratory Fables, or if you will Laboratory Fabulous. I can hope for the latter but will try in these posts to generate the former. Stories of doing science, as it unfolds. As described in the first post (and so begins) I am a prof. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who finds themself at the University of Nottingham on a Marie Curie Fellowship to investigate certain mysteries of how plants grow. These posts will count and recount the broken test tubes, hyperbolic hypotheses, flashes of insight and just poor old hot flashes that happen along the way. Science, logical and rational, as jammed up by the laboratory environment and the human mind. Tobias I. Baskin