Episode LXV: Business and Pleasure
I spent about a week and a half in LA and Orange County for both business and pleasure purposes. First, I attended a science conference at UCLA, the “17th International C. elegans Meeting”! For those of you who wouldn’t think that C. elegans community would be large enough to warrant such a meeting, let me alert you to the fact that over 1,000 people were registered for the meeting. Ha! So anyhow, I was fortunate enough to be able to give a talk, which went well, and which my family even showed up to watch! I learned later that a current Nobel laureate (also in the C. elegans field) was also in the audience during my talk. [Apparently I was too busy that day to take a picture of the occasion- thus no photo to share with you all. But my labmate did take this picture beforehand to prove that I did in fact dress up.] Also that day we noticed helicopters hovering above campus all afternoon. It turned out they were there because Michael Jackson had just been declared dead at the UCLA me...