For Phizzle and Juniper! Abba's got your back!!!

For Phizzle cause some times doing PhD bump and grind is more grind than bump and Juniper I have fingers crossed - Abba is the cure - there is no ill they cannot cure - also Muriel's wedding will just cheer you up so I give you "Waterloo" Muriel styles.

Love and hugs

E.

Although Im not comfortable with a shiney white catsuit - have totally danced like this before.

OMG - That's Fantastic

Sometimes when Eppendork needs a bit of an uplift (I was going to write a blog about my recent programming marathon with two particularly good programmers and baby programmer E - but that can keep for another blog) - now after a long day doing stuff I myself signed up to do and enjoy doing I am tired.  This darling readers was Eppendork's up lift for today - words to the effect of OMG that's fantastic may have been heard to come from my lips.   I seriously think that had I not jumped on the Bacteriology wagon - I would have been a full on, card carrying, gun toting Parasitologist - they are just that cool.

PS:  Lovely Isis since you were distracted  and couldn't do Hot shoe of the week I your faithful follower have shoed it out for you with these hot hot hot babies which I think I may just cry over cause they are just that beautiful.

That is all for now.

E.

I wanna work in Dita's Lab

Dr Isis - I do believe she out does you on the shoes this time!

E.

PS this IS cool

This is very cool:
Spatial organization of a replicating bacterial chromosome

Idit Anna Berlatzky, Alex Rouvinski, and Sigal Ben-Yehuda*

PNAS September 16, 2008 vol. 105 no. 37 14136-14140

Eppendork loves sexy science!

E.

That's hot

Possibly hotter than Dr Isis's naughty monkeys, but as it is already Dec 2nd Eppendork is too late (and currently soothing said sad moment with suitable chocolatey goodness).  However, this, is just that hot.  Now Microbes are my bag - my pretty, pretty, shiney sparkly bag, in particular bacteria, but viruses are too very, very sexy.  The Mimivirus is just that sexy.  It is huge.  Tbh Eppendork feels she needs to repeat herself - it is huge.   If you can see it under a light microscope on a Gram stained slide - its bigger than bigger, it's huge!   I love science - I love the confluence of events that happen so a 'discovery' can occur - what if they had never looked in the cooling tower?  Or in the amoeba for that matter.   Ok, so the Mimivirus challenges our perceptions about the size of viruses and just exactly what they should look like etc.  And Eppendork acknowledges that this is hot in, and of itself, but.....

Figure 2:  EM showing Mimivirus infected with Sputnik virophage

This is the really, really hot part of the Mimivirus - it has its own virophage - a virophage?  OMG how cool is that - drop dead, hotter than hot is that?  A virus that predates on a virus.  Eppendork realises that this may not excite every one , but still it's very, very cool (Eppendork may have said "oooooosssssshhhhh" when she first saw it)- and they called it Sputnik.

That's Hot!