An ongoing feature in which I recommend the work and websites of people who buy me lunch. Today’s entry: The Purugganan Lab!
What does animation have to do with genetic biology? Lunch! Yesterday I was treated to pizza at Otto by not only friend and NYU Professor Michael Purugganan, but also a bunch of Postdoctoral Fellows, Graduate Students, and Technicians who are exploring the The Molecular Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Development, among other genetic biology type things.
Before lunch I got to visit the Purugganan lab itself!
It sure looks science-y, doesn’t it?
I learned some important science things, such as in Europe you can’t just go planting genetically modified plants willy-nilly like we do in the US; that at least one visiting scientist enjoyed and recommends King Corn; and that many scientists are looking to date and marry non-scientists (contact lab for details). I feel more smarter now.
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Scientists marrying non-scientists; sounds grand.
What about engineers and scientists? Or is that like third cousins marrying?
I’ve always wanted to marry a Purugganan. They’re suppossed to be much friendlier than lawyers. I was married to a lawyer once and it didn’t work out…
How’s the pizza there?
Mike: Otto’s pizza is pretty tasty. You can probably find better pizza in New York, but not in such a roomy and upscale (for pizza) setting. Claudio Pizzeria on 10th Avenue @43rd is excellent, for example, but has the ambience of a bus station. Also Otto specializes in unusual ingredients you can’t normally get on NY pizza, like wild mushrooms (which I got, yum) or speck (yikes!).
You eat speck? Nina!
I do not eat speck (yikes!). The very word makes me say “yikes!” in parentheses.
Speck! Makes me say: Yum!