robin at cco.caltech.edu (Robert C. Colgrove) writes:
>A Richardson-style protein structure diagram where the structure
>was both a stylized representation of a local freeway interchange [...]
>>A drawing of a cell nucleus and golgi that looked like the sun setting
>over the ocean (where the golgi was the reflection) [...]
>>A San Francisco skyline like the peaks off an FPLC
>or a DNA footprint [...]
In 1987 or so there was the advertising poster called "Lineage &
Specification in Beer Hour" -- in which a spaghetti-tangle of connections
marked off which professor had been advisor of/advised by whom. The
perfect way to document academic incest.
>If off-color mottos are acceptable, you might be able to do something
>with my favorite biochemistry multiple pun. [ ...]
> The Ball and Stick Models
In the late 70s & early 80s, Caltech Biology had a divisional
T-shirt that showed a simple stylized Watson-Crick B-form DNA replication
fork, Y-end up, probably taken from the CSHSQB paper they wrote 40 years
ago. It was surrounded by the slogan "Caltech Biology," in ordinary
letters. The shirts were silkscreened, but someone got the helix backwards.
The lettering was legible (unfortunately), but the helices were *left*-
handed! The T-shirt went out of amateur production in 1984 or so; most of
them were produced *prior* to the discovery of Z-DNA.
But not before the undergraduates made a parody called "Caltech
Applied Biology." Instead of Y-shaped replication fork, the logo was a
partly undone zipper.
I know this is bionet.general, and so everything ought to have
a biological slant (oops), but I have to mention some of the other
softball teams names that originated among the math-nerds (Divergent Grads)
and the geology-nerds (Strikes & Dips)
Tech humor. Something few experience & fewer appreciate.
Mark
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Mark D. Garfinkel
e-mail: garfinkl at iitmax.acc.iit.edu
