OK, as promised, here you get an idea about the walking lane signs I was so fond of in Helsinki. This was very nicely sent to me by Nicholas Downes, who is carrying out his PhD studies at the University of Eastern Finland. In fact, the specific graphic I was seeing in Helsinki tended to be painted right onto the sidewalk, but you get the idea. The design is the same.
Now, how did Nick happen to find my request for a photo of the walking parent/child image? It could be because our blog is already so world famous, but....probably not. In fact, Nick went to the same College as Emily Mercer a few years back in the UK, and so picked up my request from Emily's Facebook page. (see Emily on our People page).
This is a great thing about science, as there is almost always someone who can help you out and is only 1 or 2 degrees of separation away. About a week ago, we received the generous gift of a new vector for efficient homologous recombination to create conditional alleles in zebrafish embryos, from David Grunwald in Utah, about which I had seen him discuss at a meeting in California earlier this year. Julien Ablain, a postdoc from Len Zon's lab in Boston, just promised to send us his new vector for efficiently generating tissue-specific Crispr/Cas knockout/edits in zebrafish. We just sent off a shipment of our transgenic gata4:gfp reporter fish to Leo Kurian's laboratory in Koln, Germany (hope customs is kind to them!). All of these things were swapped without any conditions and simply to promote the success of each others' science. Thanks Nick, David, Julien, and Len.
BTW, I did my postdoctoral training with Gary Felsenfeld, and Gary did his training with Linus Pauling. So my students are only 3 degrees of separation away from the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes (and we won't go into that whole Vitamin C thing). Todd
Now, how did Nick happen to find my request for a photo of the walking parent/child image? It could be because our blog is already so world famous, but....probably not. In fact, Nick went to the same College as Emily Mercer a few years back in the UK, and so picked up my request from Emily's Facebook page. (see Emily on our People page).
This is a great thing about science, as there is almost always someone who can help you out and is only 1 or 2 degrees of separation away. About a week ago, we received the generous gift of a new vector for efficient homologous recombination to create conditional alleles in zebrafish embryos, from David Grunwald in Utah, about which I had seen him discuss at a meeting in California earlier this year. Julien Ablain, a postdoc from Len Zon's lab in Boston, just promised to send us his new vector for efficiently generating tissue-specific Crispr/Cas knockout/edits in zebrafish. We just sent off a shipment of our transgenic gata4:gfp reporter fish to Leo Kurian's laboratory in Koln, Germany (hope customs is kind to them!). All of these things were swapped without any conditions and simply to promote the success of each others' science. Thanks Nick, David, Julien, and Len.
BTW, I did my postdoctoral training with Gary Felsenfeld, and Gary did his training with Linus Pauling. So my students are only 3 degrees of separation away from the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes (and we won't go into that whole Vitamin C thing). Todd
Not exactly sure what the rules are at this particular spot, but perhaps the walkers and riders share this lane!
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