We had our latest journal club on March 2nd. We used the following article as a starting point for our continuing discussion of Gene Regulatory Networks:
Ben-Tabou de-Leon, S. and E. Davidson. 2006. Deciphering the Underlying Mechanism of Specification and Differntiation: The Sea Urchin Gene Regulatory Network. Sci. STKE (361). pe47.
Our discussion quickly delved into math-thinking about how we can figure out how many combinations there are of a certain number of "objects" (in this case, gene circuits or loops). How did we end up with equations involving factorials? Well, Dr. Boecklen was thinking about modeling experiments for small gene circuits and loops, and before you know it, we were deep into math! (see our whiteboard)
As it was a journal club meeting, we also enjoyed enchiladas! This time we had green chicken enchilada's from Andele's. They were really good. The average "fruit fly" score was 4.1 (on a 1-5 scale, with 5 being the highest score). Here are some of the comments:
- "creamy and delicious"
- "I really liked the crispy bites of chicken"
- "good spicy flavor" (or "good spicy flavour"- can't remember if this one came from one of the two Canadians in the group!)
As we are assessing student learning with a pre- and post-test, we figured we should use a similar (if more qualitative) approach to assessing enchiladas- so here is a "pre" photo and a "post" photo- as you can see, the twelve of use made short work of a LARGE tray of enchiladas.
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