Our Undies Shine...

Our infamous Undies (undergraduate researchers) shined at the recent Biology Department Undergraduate Research Symposium. We had three presentations including a talk by Spencer Hyde on his work on fatty acid sensitive potassium channels, and posters by Heather Curtis (on the obesity-prone and -resistant rats) and Stephanie Croasdell (salt taste in a diabetic mouse model). All did great jobs and made the lab look better than we probably are...

Stephanie won an award for the Best Poster presentation shedding more limelight onto the lab. Rumor has it Arian is angling to get a part of the award for all his help with her poster.

A link to a real article talking about the event can be found here.

Congrats to all our Undies on their great work!

Happy Thanksgiving...

Greenlander Hits Us...

OK, I gotta get on one of these social networking sites....

For about 5 weeks now, we have been on a sacred quest - a quest to get ONE visitor to our blog from Greenland. If you've been following along, you'll know it has been a miserable failure, giving me 5 weeks of frustration.

But today it all changed.

I got this email from one of the labbies, Heather - an undergrad researcher - at about 2:06 PM


Within about 13 minutes after getting Heather's email, I received the following email from our new favorite Greenlander, Ole Lange, who hails from Ilulissat, Greenland:




And, while there is yet to be a Greenland flag on our FEEDJIT traffic map (I am beginning to doubt if FEEDJIT has a Greenland flag available), I have taken the liberty of adding one to a recent traffic map for the blog. I have to admit shedding a tear while I did so...



As promised, Ole will soon be sporting the "old school" Gilbertson Lab T-shirt and writing with our official pencils. As they say, Ole, "it's in the mail".

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED thanks to Heather...

now, I just need to figure out what this Facebook is all about since it could accomplish in ten minutes what I couldn't in 5 weeks...

now what country is next?

Cough, cough.... achooooo!

Most Utah ski resorts are open or will be open soon, including our personal favorite Solitude. I think I may be feeling a prolonged cold coming on starting on or about Nov 14th that may cause me to miss a significant amount of work...

Thankfully, I know that my lab is staffed with the utmost professionals that can carry on in case of an extended absence on my part.

...now where did I put that wax?

OMG!!

I seriously doubt Dr. Master (bhavik shah) is a spy from India that is going to spy on CHINA！！

This little guy is pretending patching some fat things in LOGAN, but he actually knows everything about CHINA!!

HE KNOWS EVERYTHING!!!!

Sign of the times...

A plane flying over the Denver Broncos last home game (11.2.08) was pulling this sign:











Guess we know who Cathy Burks voted for.