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Platform: iMessage Timezone: UTC+0000 2017/04/16 The next topic to discuss is optogenetics Was what crick was working on before he died and now a real field. Except they are doing it wrong - 01:32:16 pin 0 01:32:22 pm Ed Boyden l/ buds 01:32:58 pm Want to meet him 01:40:05 pm Anytime just name it 01:40:37 pm K 01:40:41 pm EFTA01613008 Stress and Protista SUPER INTERESTING 01:41:02 pm Same as plants less like humans 01:41:09 pm Protists 01:41:17 pm Also and for super different reasons I was thinking last week about VOLVOX a lot I had to update these chapters for this book and I got assigned the ones on single called brain pathogens and was so fascinated by endosymbionts 01:42:50 pm My chapters were just dumb and academic and which symptoms and meds etc but VOLVOX are amazing I think we could make a breakthrough here too 01:43:30 pin Would you like to talk to ed ? 01:43:39 pm Hang on. Yes yes I want to maybe this week? Anyway you will love this VOLVOX are not very good pathogens but they are super good Trojan horses. They can harbor really yucky other bugs inside them (called endosymbionts) so that when you want to kill them they release the contents of bad bugs and you get really sick from other stuff and treat the other stuff. Like chlamydia etc 01:45:31 pm EFTA01613009 This is why ppl w naegleria for quickly (horrible endosymbionts) and also why many folks w malaria also have other diseases when stressed. Not bc they have those diseases but bc the bigger pathogens host them till they need them and then release BUT 01:46:45 pm Scientists have been struggling for a while now to figure out how to keep human cells alive in culture bc nothing really works so well and most things are so dirty that they pick up new pathogens or just die 01:47:32 pm Volvox are clean vanilla hosts and can be super easily adapted to host and incubate human cells And why this matters? Volvox can live anywhere. They aren't fastidious. On their own they aren't even infectious. 01:48:35 pm So instead of all this fancy science use the belly of a friend 01:48:51 pm Plant lab 01:48:59 pm Loving ok up Volvox I'm telling you 01:51:35 pm Look it up 01:51:42 pm http://www.sciencemag.orginews/2017/04/new-system-scientists-never-have-write- grant-application-again EFTA01613010 Sent an attachment Filename: 318E4220-A601-4F6E-6595-5475592779BC.pluginPayloadAttachment Path: 318E4220-A601-4F6E-B595-5475592779BC.pluginPayloadAttachment Size: 6 KB Type: image/vnd.microsoft.icon 06:26:43 pm How long are you in your island? 10:31:08 pm Tues then New York 10:32:56 pm 2017/04/17 What time in NYC Tuesday 08:26:57 pm  Read wed 12 noon 08:32:41 pm  Sent EFTA01613011