Episode CLXVI: UCLA Worm Meeting

Every two years, the Genetics Society of America hosts a conference at UCLA bringing together people from around the world who work on C. elegans worms. I have attended these conferences many times in the past. This was my first time attending as a big grown-up professor. In fact, I was also joined by the first Norris Lab graduate student!

[First night at the conference: image source: https://twitter.com/SSerenaDing/status/1141933928137351169]

I also spent a lot of time skipping conference sessions to catch up with all sorts of family and friends, including...

Kyle, at Santa Monica Beach. 

[Living the SoCal life!]

Rafael, for brunch/lunch in Beverly Hills.

And my parents, at The Getty Villa.

I did in fact do some productive things at the meeting. I gave a talk and my graduate student presented a poster. Also, while we were in transit between LAX and UCLA, we learned that the lab's first paper had been accepted by a journal! (More on that in a future episode.)

Finally, a highlight of the meeting is the infamous "comedy show," where extremely science nerdy jokes abound. If you'd like to subject yourself to a sample, here's a clip of one of the funnier segments.




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