Can you find holiday genes?
Each year our Your Favorite Gene Manager, Kyle Brueggeman, challenges scientists to bend their minds and find gene symbols or genes that are holiday related.
The mission:
Look at gene symbols, squint your eyes, imagine, and show us the new meaning you see in the genes.
All winter holiday celebrations are fair game. Bring on Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, New Year’s Eve, or even Festivus “related” genes!
Enter before Dec 31, 2010, and you will be entered to win an iPad!
Here are some great entries that we’ve had so far:
Lectin from Viscum album (European mistletoe)
Who needs a sprig of green when you can substitute the purified stuff!
Five favorite genes of Santa Claus are: ELF1 (E74-like factor 1 (ets domain transcription factor), ELF2, ELF3, ELF4, ELF5.
ACHE-what you get after eating a big Holiday Dinner!!
(Hint: Take a little time to look at this entry before jumping to the “punchline” below!)
MR1, RYK, HRaS, TyMS, TAL2, NDsT1, AL118921, GaD1, N5, GH1, (and a “T” Thrown in for good measure…)
Can you figure out what it says?
Ignore the numbers, add necessary vowels, and you get:
MeRRY KHRiSTMaS To ALL aND To ALL a GooD NiGHT
From everyone at Sigma Life Sciences, have a Safe and Happy Holiday Season!
