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November 14 恩，武汉大学的一个DV，很赞《寻人启事》，link（zz from sina）：http://you.video.sina.com.cn/b/25982921-1236124741.html
现在在sina的video首页，真的很不错，里面的林荫道仿佛是前武测校区的，大家指正。恩，老松鼠推荐。 ：） October 11 电脑画图好痛苦以前做ppt，要是做个模式图，都是直接用powerpoint的shape来解决。但是可以直接用的shape太少了（连画个半圆我都捉摸折腾了好久），细胞又是有很多变态形状的，于是powerpoint作图基本上都是mission impossible。现在帮老板做review的figure，天啊，我终于明白为什么大家都不画植物的vascuar tissue的模型了，画起来好痛苦啊！！！摸索了一个周末，发现mac下如果是画规则图形，easydraw很好用，直接用powerpoint也可以解决问题，不规则图形用vectordesigner很赞，尤其是editpath功能比powerpoint强大很多，可以用基本形状揉捏（圆矩等）成各种变态形状。Adobe illustrator，我觉得上手没有这两款快，而且感觉也只能是做一些规则图形。如果有人试过coreldrawer可以告诉我，我没有时间试了。。。。。。 October 07 看见了三只小鹿在Alum Creek一个离湖比较近的路口，突然蹦出来三只，呆呼呼的小鹿，大猫兴奋的下去试图靠近，然后小鹿犹豫不决一阵就慢慢离开了，跳起来那一小搓白尾巴好好玩。老板说看到两只小鹿就会有好运气，我一下子看见了三只（之前一次开车从我车前蹦过一只，从来没有看到过两只），天知道有没有好运。 ：） October 06 Greg Hannon's SeminarGreat talk! Big guys always can make very complicated system simple and summarize relatively coherent trends from tons of the data. October 05 2009 Noble prize for Medicine and PhysiologyTelomerase and telomere, I mentioned earlier this year in a post, is the subject for noble prize of this year. It is much much (way) better than the last year's ridicules item.
Telomerase and telomere, universal to most eukaryotic organisms (all higher eukaryotes), protect the ends of chromosomes and are the one of the main determinants of the life span. With the abnormal activity, the cancer cells have almost forever active telomerase to keep the cancer cells dividing without any restrains. It is a real physiological advanced knowledge for understanding our lifes.
September 26 又搞砸了好吧，我承认太不小心了，5月MG那次讲miRNA就该吸收教训，这次托大没改abstract居然没有入选rustbelt meeting的talk。早知道就换RNA－protein trafficking的项目。。。。。。poster就poster吧，从来都是出去talk，还是应该学学作poster。就看Ryuta好好talk给实验室争口气。 September 01 "Wake me up, when September comes"时间如梭，流逝之快令人毛骨悚然。昨天看到店里都摆出鬼节的装饰玩具，心里的压力陡增。周日就是来美5年整，15日前due一个小review，一个abstract，还要做一次全系报告，主project的文章还没动笔。。。。。。sigh August 08 被责“败家”了老板去年底拿的funding，今年初到位，分三年，结果上个星期老板临回国前急匆匆的跑来说，今年那份剩下的不多了。。。。。。实验室只有两个人，用起来还是这么猛啊。。。。。。没办法，好多东西都到了年头，按计划更新还没有更新完，这就又资金紧张了。。。。。。我还多做了一个quarter的TA省了8000多刀呢。sigh，这年头run个lab真难啊！现在我是宁作TA也不省药品钱，data才是王道。 August 02 Rustbelt meetingOur lab will all come this year, after absent for two years. I will give an oral presentation this year and my labmate will have a poster (the third version of the same project for him ^-^). Probably this will be my last time to summarize my work in public before graduation.
I still remembered that I went to the meeting three years ago. I had no data at that time and was sort of depressed by the slow progress. I also remembered that the two best presentation winners in that year published well: one in Science, one in PNAS. The guy with PNAS publication was a first year graduate student, but so skillful for talking and presented beautiful data.
BTW: I just learnt the meaning of the "rustbelt": it reflects the auto industry in the midwest and northeastern parts of the US. August 01 除了测序烧钱，他们还能干吗？看到报导”由深圳华大基因研究院联合中国微生物领域顶尖研究机构、院校和企业组成的“万种微生物基因计划”，一日在此间启动。
据悉，该计划是深圳华大基因研究院在“国际千人基因组计划”后启动的又一重大基因组计划，目前该计划的地位为亚洲第一、世界第三 。“
什么叫亚洲第一，世界第三？指的是烧钱的力度？如果真的是只需要筛选工农业需要的微生物，需要测万种微生物的基因组？！100多年前不知道DNA为何物的时代都可以开始筛选微生物了！！！NIH每年扩大测序物种类别并免费发布，那中国能不能省点钱干别的？！ July 16 Days in Vancouver--Day 6This was a treffic day. I finished all my dream tour plan.
In the mornigng, I went to Stanley Park. The park is an island with beautiful view of the sea and mountain. We walked around it and enjoyed a lot. I went very close to the sea water. There are many many crabs, all are little cute. They fight to each other, and moved very fast. There is a wetland reserved area, suppose that tourists can see beavers-- in dark but not daytime. We did see one racoon, but not even as cute as the three I saw on campus. Trail in the park is no longer free, but $2 per day is reasonable.
Time is enough, so we went to grouse mountain. About an hour one can climb to the top, but we five people are all lazy bones, so we just went to the seatlift to the top. Five minutes, easy and confortable, we arrived on the top of the mountain. It is similar to the great mountains in China, except here you can see ocean as well. The 2010 olympics games will be there, we saw several constructions. As part of the construction projects, there are more seatlifts, and free on mountain. We really saw awesome scene. You can imagine on the top of a big mountain, you are facing tremondous huge ocean in front of you, and the top of the snow mountain hiding in the clouds at your back. I got say Vancouver people are so lucky. I am so impressed by the nature.
At night we enjoyed mexican food again, I had a nice magarita.
Now I am in YVR airport, heading back. Wonderful trip! July 15 Days in Vancouver--Day 5I saw three racoons on campus, quite cute.
The last talk about plant virus ends at 10:20 pm, so we had plenty of time heading to the downtown.
We happened to have Simon's group from Marryland joined us to Chinatown. We found a very nice dim-sum brunch. It was so great, very authentic, and turned out to be quite cheap. Everyone was satisfacted. I heard many things about the plant virus field these days, I guess goship is really part of the meeting. This Chinatown was the most neat one I have ever been, and has a very authentic royal garden style park. We spent quite sometime there. I had some nice present for Bin now. : )
There was one workshop for writing, papers. It is something nice, but without extensive practising, no magic will happen. The slides were supposed to be available online, so people can download from the asv2009 meeting homepage.
Fred Sack took our lab to dinner, with a rising star in the plant-pathogen interaction field, Dr. Li, Xin. Turned out Xin's lab had one more plant cell being acceoted today, quite nice. We went to the the best restaurant in town (新瑞华）. The food was amazingly good, it was too bad that I was still too full from the lunch...... They all were teasing me not eating much, even the waiter......We tried some recommended dishes, I love the apetizer best.
We missed dancing and banquet, since the tickets are way beyond our badget (60 dollars). So far everything went on well. Tomorrow I will go to stanley park. Days in Vancouver--Day 4I had a terrible dream, so I woke up at 4:00 pm.
It gets fucking cold, I almost caught cold here. In the morning, I want to the beach again, it is empty, I had a many beautiful pics then. Our lab met the dean of botany in UBC, Dr. Fred Sack, who used to be the dean of our department. We walked around the whole department. I heard that the king of Japanese was traveling in UBC today, but I missed that. Some of my friends were so close that they took very clear pictures.
In the afternoon, I heard the second part of the plant virus talks. It is sort of boring, nothing really exciting. Everyone in the field is so desperated. Too bad! There is one talk about algae virus from Japan was quite amuzing, that was the only few highlights. I do not think I will go to ASV meeting any longer because I do not feel belonging to the group.
The night we went to the other state-of-the -art-speaker talk from Ohio State, Kathy's talk. Quite nice. This time Ohio State is so well-represented.
In the social and poster session, we set up collaboration with a Canadian group, hopefully it will lead to unreveal the cause of the viroid pathogenicity. July 13 Days in Vancouver--Day 3I had a nice sleep last night. The weather changed a lot today, becoming cool.
In the morning, I locked myself in the room to practice. It is an old stuff, so not much problem, I just need to control my flow.
Lunch with plant virus group: I understand that there are some people around but did not show up, like my boss. However, there are only about thirty people in the lunch compared the 1,300 attendence for this ASV meeting, how pathetic.!
Plant session I went well, and I did learnt many new concepts about virus, but seriously, virology is never of my real interests. My talk was OK, and I only got one technical question. My boss gave the state-of-the-art-speaker talk in the afternoon. It was good except he happened recorded his practice minutes and the sides went on out of control. I think there are only three viroid group showed up here, and we had a nice talk with one of them That lady was also a graduate student. She did many great job for chloroplast viroids. I wish she could consider our lab as her postdoc choice. She even offered me a cooperation to help me identify my candidate protein binding site on viroid., which will save me a lot of time and contributes tremedously to the whole project in a really long term. I really appreciate that. I thought about that for a long while, but the protein-protected digestion essay is too difficult to be applied to a huge RNA.
Well, that is it. The meeting is sort of done for me. I will visit botanical garden tomorrow. July 12 Days in Vancouver-- Day2,It is a little bit too hot for Vancouver: almost 30 degree.
What did I do? In the morning, I picked up my travel grant check, but I could not find any place for breakfast. I woke up at 5:30 am and did not eat anything till 8:30. I met many osuers in the starbucks, so we decided to take a tour in campus. We went to another beach, and we found there almost all naked people...... I seriously suspect that UBC beaches are all nude beaches.
Back from the beach, I saw a message from boss saying he delayed the plan to Chinatown. All right, so I played soccer with some primary school kids on campus. I am too old to catch up with their elegant actions now.
Seriously, since then I felt so sleepy. I stayed in bed from 11:00 am till 2:30 pm. I could not really sleep but I just felt so tired and sleepy. I hate jet-lag!!! I am so a circadian resistent mutant. I went to the SUB for something to eat and then almost slept from the keynote address (5:00 pm) till now (9:00 pm). I cannot wait till the end of virus ecology section. I have to get a rest now, since I am going to have an oral presentation tomorrow. I am just a little bit regreting not take my awesome laser pointer with me since I saw a lady trying to jump to point to her data with a non-functioning pointer in virus ecology section.
I just noticed that I am walking along the agricultural road everyday on campus, I am so bona-fide a peasent.
July 11 Days in Vancouver-- Day 1We (I and the Japanese graduate student in the lab, Ryuta) happened to book the same flight as our boss, so we headed to Vancouver together for American Society of Virology 2009 meeting. My boss is one of the five state-of-the-art speakers of this year, the only one from plant virology field.
I hated the flight in these days because of no food. I had a lot of soybars, but feel uneasy. Drinks made me dizzy, no matter juice, coke water or coffee. About four hours flight from Chicago, we arrived at 3:00 pm. I have to say that YVR is the best (I mean, the best) airport I have ever been to in my life (I really did not prepare to see such an art). In the airport there is a faked birds garden that mimics the environment of the Vancouver area, and a big water fall demonstrates the history of the American Indian culture.
We took taxi to UBC. The city is nice, but I was not that impressed. I checked in to my room: one person, windows facing to pacific ocean about 500 meters away. Beautiful? So damn true. But also too noisy!!! I cannot image in summer there are so many cars: Ohio State campus is so quiet in summer.
Boss was so hungry that we took bus to downtown for dinner. In Vancouver, the bus will not return changes, so we bought bus ticket booklets (ten tickets together). Also, in such a huge city in the Great White North, there are few buses equipped with airconditions. No wonder US people always make fun of the Canadian people were like living in two decades behind. We do not know where to stop, so we just got out of the bus when we smelled some fantastic food. We picked a Mexican Restaurant out of many sushi bars, and it happened to be recommended by the ASV organizers. The food beats all the Mexican food I ever had (the one in Ohio University was close enough to the taste).
We came back after dinner with satisfaction and check in for the meeting. Funny thing is: our state-of-the-art boss forgot to register it...... I and Ryuta were like "hahaha".
We walked around the campus to try to adjust to the local time zone. It is a beautiful campus because you can see great grouse mountain and even snow mountains while with quiet and clean pacific. We walked through rose garden and tried to reach any beach for sunset. En, I have to say that we found the nude beach so easily and casually on the first day. It is one of top famous nude beaches in north America and supposed to be in a secret place. It is really buried in a small forest, and we saw the sign saying clothing optional behind. Ryuta and my boss were so excited to see such a famous place so I just followed. To my surprise, we had to walk a long way to reach the beach, and I only saw a naked old men....... It is so beautiful there. We just sit on the big drifts, talked about science and waited for the sunset. Poor Ryuta: he was so focused to hear the scientific discussion that he missed the sunset moment. Mountains, pacific ocean and sunset, that's my first day here, the only thing is I forgot to take my camera with me and left at the dorm....... I went to my dorm alone after that since my boss and Ryuta lived in the center of the campus. Shamefully, I got lost. I was so tired and sleepy that I even did not want to check the map on hand. Luckily, I saw a friend from Kentucky Univ. I figured out he lived in the same building, so we went back together. You know, except my lab people (boss and Ryuta), he was the only person from plant virology field I met in my first day here. No wonder my boss said that plant virology people are just the tiny decoration of the ASV and just for showing the diversity and harmony of the virology society.
Boss asked me to check the best Chinese restaurant in town and we will head for it in the second day. And now, I wake up at 5:30 am local time due to the jet-lag and noise from outside......
July 06 谜底揭开的时候，有些失望很多时候，总是期待好的结果，总觉得那么多种可能，为什么会偏偏挑上一个自己不喜欢的结局呢？很多时候，就偏偏是怕什么来什么。
主project是无法做完，半路接的一个project进展飞快，用来毕业肯定没有问题，只是最终投到哪里的问题了。于是有了各种期望，希望结果是想要的。但是科研就是科研，你所得的只是一个truth，未必是你的期待。本无所谓好无所谓坏，想的多了，难免有些落差。就这样吧，人事已尽，何必庸人自扰。收拾收拾，明年早些毕业，结束读书生涯。 |
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