June 2007 lab meeting

metaphysics

  1. (used with a sing. verb) Philosophy. The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value.
  2. (used with a pl. verb) The theoretical or first principles of a particular discipline: the metaphysics of law.
  3. (used with a sing. verb) A priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment.

biology

    1. The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution. It includes botany and zoology and all their subdivisions.
    2. The life processes or characteristic phenomena of a group or category of living organisms: the biology of viruses.
    3. The plant and animal life of a specific area or region.
  • metabiology

    1. age of the universe, milky way

    big bang, 13.7 billion years ago (Cayrel et al, 2001; Dauphus, 2005)

    population III stars, ~100 million years post big bang (Bromm et al 2002)

    stars with rocky planets ~ 1 billion years post big bang (Marchenko 1999)

    2. life on earth, geological evidence

    formation of the earth 4.57 billion years ago, concurrent with condensation of the sun

    continental crust and liquid ocean within 200 million years (Marty and Yokochi, 2006)

    Archean Era (2.5 - 4.0 bya)

    3 locations of ancient rock

    SMYD family TPR domain

    http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~cmg/Demo/wheel/wheelApp.html

    Tetratricopeptide repeat domain; typically contains 34 amino acids [WLF]-X(2)-[LIM]-[GAS]-X(2)-[YLF]-X(8)-[ASE]-X(3)-[FYL]-X(2)-[ASL]-X(4)-[PKE] is the consensus sequence

    microscopy 3 color vectors

    psCFP2, pEGFP-C1, mRFP