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From: Beverly Barton
Sent: Jun 25, 2008 8:44 AM
To: Cytometry Mailing List
Subject: Spending too much time on the flow can lead to this
You know you've been spending too much time on the flow when:
1) you dream all night about a new instrument that doesn't exist
2) you dream in rhyme to a tune about what you do, thus composing your new lab theme song.
Me, I dreamt all night about a new flow cytometer that married the open configuration of a MoFlow to the capability of an ImageStream. I also had expanded staff to run it. I'll take the staff with my old FACScan!!
And the song?
To the tune of "Home on the Range"
Oh give me a flow,
Where all the cells glow;
(And one has to work in the dark).
I see cells fluoresce,
And never coalesce.
In this way does one make one’s mark.
Refrain:
Flow, flow all the day!
No clogs to get in my way.
FITC and PE
Is what I shall see.
Science triumphant alway'.
If ISAC needs a theme song, we can talk....
Beverly E. Barton, Ph.D.
Research Cancer Biologist
VA NJ-HCS
385 Tremont Avenue
East Orange, NJ 07018
and
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery/Division of Urology
UMDNJ-NJMS F509 lab; F672 office
185 S. Orange Avenue
Newark, New Jersey 07103
Telephone 973-972-0662
E-mail bartonbe@umdnj.edu
Telefacsimile 973-972-3892
