Author Archives: rpg

So. The Australian Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (the acronym of which sounds horribly like a town in Norfolk )not only exists (and no, I’m not going to even consider what strange bedfellows this beast is party to) … Continue reading →

Steve Matheson links to an extraordinary video . Go see it. Laugh. And then go and look at photographs of beautiful dogs.

Continuing a trend (hey, it’s twice; that’s more reproducible than most of my experiments), I had a little chuckle when I read Ligand binding induces a conformational change in ifnar1 that is propagated to its membrane-proximal domain How gorgeous. Perhaps … Continue reading →

bq. Dear all Please note that both the lifts are currently out of action. In case one of them starts to work again, I advise not to use them this evening. SNAFU.

From an email: Remember, if you are running 15N HSQCs on double labeled protein, you should use the -LABEL_CN option in the pulse program, which incorporates 13C decoupling, and will improve the look of your HSQC in the 15N dimension, … Continue reading →

Stalag Luft III Last year sometime, the University of Sydney (the SU“stainable Campus”:http://www.facilities.usyd.edu.au/projects/environ/about.shtml ) in its asymptotic wisdom started a project to completely destroy the not unpleasant (and positively Elysian compared with the building itself, above) grounds outside my lab. … Continue reading →

An email to the department this morning, sent by one of my most loyal spies, seemed innocuous enough: has anyone seen my mobile phone last left in Lift #2 In our particular ivory rather drab concrete tower our lifts are … Continue reading →

Flicking through the RSS for my favourite journal just now, I noticed that of the dozen or so crystal structure papers (out of the thirty or so new papers), two sets of authors felt it necessary to state the structural … Continue reading →

Comments are the lifeblood of blogging. If no one responds to our erudite pontifications then we may as well not bother (quiet in the cheap seats. Hang on, no, that’s wrong…). I’ve been keeping a semi-professional weblog at another place … Continue reading →

Over on the end of the Pier, Henry (or is that ‘Hunry’?) is whining about someone most of the civilized world has never heard of appearing on a British TV show, and where this might end . Maxine reckons it’s … Continue reading →