Phd submitted

I finally submitted my PhD thesis. The viva should hopefully take place quite soon.

Therefor this might well be the last entry on this blog (not that here had been much activity in the first place).

: 07 Jan 2009 10:29 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Talk by Hans Othmer

Writing about web page http://www.math.umn.edu/~othmer/

Just a quick note. Talk was on drosophila development / spatial patterning. Muss mal durch die Artikel auf der Homepage blaettern.

: 03 Sep 2007 17:51 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Storytelling

Might be handy for quick reports. A quick tutorial on how to structure your 5min story.

: 04 Feb 2007 23:08 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

New rapid transit bus to Coventry city centre

According to an email sent around in the maths department today there are plans for a new bus service to Covntry city centre. Since that bus is supposed to run through the maths’ rose beds people here a not over enthusiastic. I for my part find at least the idea of a proper bus connection to coventry very reasonable. It might not have to be accomplished with vehicles which try to compete with the noise levels of a diesel train engine.

I opt for either a tunnel or an underground railway. Or, even better, just cut off earlsdon from the already running bus service to coventry. That should reduce travel time from 30min down to not more than 15min.

: 19 Jan 2007 14:38 |  Tags: Bus Coventru |  Comments (5) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

St. Michael

Follow-up to St. Michael help us against the terrorists! from Schreibfaul in Warwick

Holla. And here I stumble across St. Michael again (Coventry Cathedral) ...

: 10 Sep 2006 12:13 |  Tags: Archangel Michael |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Der Bonker

: 27 Aug 2006 14:44 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

St. Michael help us against the terrorists!

Almighty God we pray that our Patron St. Michael the Archangel will Defend us in battle.
Be our protection against wickedness and the snares of the devil;
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
And do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
By thy power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits
Who wander through the world
For the ruin of Souls.

Amen.

: 15 Aug 2006 22:07 |  Tags: Archangel Terrorism |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

EU parlament in Brussels

And if you want that is stays there, have a look at the oneseat campaign. (They want your signature)

: 11 Jul 2006 14:56 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Synthetic Biology III

Follow-up to Synthetic Biology talks II from Schreibfaul in Warwick

Talk by Strogatz

Title: "Synchronization, singularities and circadian clocks: lessons from Art Winfree's pre–molecular approach to systems biology"

Part one: Synchronization:

Coupled ocillators in experiment:

• emerging coherence Chemical oscillators: Kiss Science 2002
• Repressilator coupled by quorum sensing, Garcia-Ojalvo PNAS 2004 and McMillen PNAS 2002

Part two: Phase singularities in circadian clocks:

: 26 Jun 2006 20:11 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Synthetic Biology talks II

Follow-up to Synthetic Biology from Schreibfaul in Warwick

Title: "Programming bacteria: wiring synthetic sensors and circuits to heterologous outputs"

talk by Christopher Voigt

Three systems in E.Coli:

1. Light Sensor Nature 2005
2. Heat Sensor
3. Logic Gate. in progress. previous Leiber Science2002

Programming Bacteria:

• Competition 6 month time limit. iGEM Genetic Engineering Competition
• a national student competition

One: Light Sensor:

• Bacterial Photography. Change gene expression on light.
• on known photoreceptors in E.coli. just in other organisms.
• Phytochromes in Cyanobacteria, Arabidopsis.
• kinase that is activated on light induction
• compine e.coli osmotic shock sensor with cph1, ouput lacZ

Two: Bacterial Thermometer:

• Heat shock and Cold shock repsonse promoters
• Cold: Hypb, ansb, cspa_x promoter
• Heat: htpG

Synthetic Logic (AND gate):

• Examples of other gates in ecoli, yeast and mammal cells

: 26 Jun 2006 18:26 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem