CLS7 Pumpkin Carving

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Jelena’s first non-orientation day. Building evacuation and pumpkin carving. Just a regular day in CLS.

Thanks to the Banks Lab, the newest members of our Division for organizing the floor Pumpkin carving contest. Smiles at work now allowed?

Rodents were clearly the theme for this year.

Somehow the Tsai selfie pumpkin didn’t place. I would have judged differently!

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The ears are spot on. Seriously, how could that mug not win best pumpkin?

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Maratos-Flier lab pumpkin Rorschach test: what do you see? Mouse in a witches hat? Hummingbird dropping a deuce?

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#4 has got to be the winner!

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Standard Disclaimer: Banks lab works on naked mole rats. BIDMC a harassment-free workplace.

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Well actually the DREADD mouse pumpkin won first place. Congrats to the Lowell lab team!

Congrats to Luhong and Shiwei on getting married!

恭喜他們結婚了 !

(or so google translate tells me)

So, totally forgot to grab pics a from celebratory lunch at Jojo… some pics of the food we ate is the best I could do.

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Five spice beef in scallion pancake

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pan-fried dumplings

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Kong Xin Cai 空心菜 (Ong choy)

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xiao long bao

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Spicy Beef noodle soup

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Pigs ears (order this!)

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Dan Dan noodles

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Pork Belly buns

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Egg in Scallion pancake

Welcome Luhong!

Luhong officially started today!

She comes to us from Suzanne Moenter’s lab where she worked on estradiol-mediated functional plasticity in hypothalamic kisspeptin neurons and their input onto gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons.

Already hard at work with Deepti on getting Dronc-seq up and running! As the first postdoc in the lab, she has no shoes to fill?

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Deepti, Luhong and Adam checking out droplet occupancy

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Deepti and the Jordan GOAT sweatshirt. Luhong approves.