Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
"I think my behaviour is in the allowed region, but others think I'm a right out liar" Janet Newman Principal Scientist / Director, Collaborative Crystallisation Centre (C3) CSIRO Material Science and Engineering 343 Royal Parade Parkville. VIC. 3052 Australia Tel +613 9662 7326 Email janet.new...@csiro.au From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Gerard DVD Kleywegt Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 9:42 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently Dear CCP4BB-ers, Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to a life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able to come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I try to keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. Many thanks in advance! --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se ** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ** To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
Everybody enjoys me modelling a protein, but not when I'm modelling shorts! Or Crocs. Nice legs! :-) Cheers Nigel --- Nigel W. Moriarty Building 33R0349, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720-8235 Phone : 510-486-5709 Email : nwmoria...@lbl.gov Fax : 510-486-5909 Web : CCI.LBL.gov On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 8:28 AM Tristan Croll wrote: > Everyone keeps telling me I look terrible, but I'm unphased... > > > On 2019-08-15 12:42, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: > > Dear CCP4BB-ers, > > > > Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a > > side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related > > sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached > > to a life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! > > > > I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been > > able to come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are > > beautiful, but I try to keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I > > know. > > > > Many thanks in advance! > > > > --Gerard > > > > ** > >Gerard J. Kleywegt > > > > http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se > > ** > >The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity > >to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. > > ** > >Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the > >radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume > > of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! > > ** > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
Not sure if it is of the taste but I sometimes joked like: == It is a complex that it is a complex when a ligand rather than a water binds there. I worry about data security when running TLS, so to computer security when using TNT. I keep solving important structures with important parts unstructured. Lijun @ DLX On 8/15/19 6:42 AM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: Dear CCP4BB-ers, Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to a life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able to come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I try to keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. Many thanks in advance! --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se ** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ** To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
Everyone keeps telling me I look terrible, but I'm unphased... On 2019-08-15 12:42, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: Dear CCP4BB-ers, Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to a life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able to come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I try to keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. Many thanks in advance! --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se ** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ** To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
“Can I speed up structure solution using different phases”…?? I’ll get my coat. [Gerard - what is the audience? Crystallographers vs general public might make a difference..!] Sorry - I should have mentioned that. It's all employees of the European Bioinformatics Institute, so a mix of biologists/chemists/gene jockeys, IT people and admin staff. --Gerard Ed T.A.Edwards Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biochemistry Deputy Head of School _ Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Faculty of Biological Sciences === Garstang 8.53d University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT ?Telephone: 0113 343 3031 Faculty Staff Profile<https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/molecular-and-cellular-biology/staff/61/thomas-a-edwards-ph-d-> Astbury Centre Web Page<http://www.astbury.leeds.ac.uk/people/staff/staffpage.php?StaffID=TE> [signature_1707952708]<https://poppi.website/> Perturbation of Protein-Protein Interactions Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple. ~Willy Wonka [/Users/bmbtae/bmbtae/0_Docs/Astbury/0_AstburyConversation/2020/01784_Astbury Conversation 2020 email signature (WR).png]<https://astburyconversation.leeds.ac.uk/> From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of "Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D." Reply-To: "Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D." Date: Thursday, 15 August 2019 at 15:57 To: "CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK" Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently You're welcome to boo this one down, but how about something like, "With a some coaxing, a protein can be X-cited to expose its structure." I think that's poor, but maybe it's a starting point. -Daniel On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:42 AM Gerard DVD Kleywegt mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se>> wrote: Dear CCP4BB-ers, Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to a life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able to come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I try to keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. Many thanks in advance! --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se<mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se> ** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ** To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 Best wishes, --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se ** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ** To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
“Can I speed up structure solution using different phases”…?? I’ll get my coat. [Gerard - what is the audience? Crystallographers vs general public might make a difference..!] Ed T.A.Edwards Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biochemistry Deputy Head of School _ Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Faculty of Biological Sciences === Garstang 8.53d University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT Telephone: 0113 343 3031 Faculty Staff Profile<https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/molecular-and-cellular-biology/staff/61/thomas-a-edwards-ph-d-> Astbury Centre Web Page<http://www.astbury.leeds.ac.uk/people/staff/staffpage.php?StaffID=TE> [signature_1707952708]<https://poppi.website/> Perturbation of Protein-Protein Interactions Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple. ~Willy Wonka [/Users/bmbtae/bmbtae/0_Docs/Astbury/0_AstburyConversation/2020/01784_Astbury Conversation 2020 email signature (WR).png]<https://astburyconversation.leeds.ac.uk/> From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of "Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D." Reply-To: "Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D." Date: Thursday, 15 August 2019 at 15:57 To: "CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK" Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently You're welcome to boo this one down, but how about something like, "With a some coaxing, a protein can be X-cited to expose its structure." I think that's poor, but maybe it's a starting point. -Daniel On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:42 AM Gerard DVD Kleywegt mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se>> wrote: Dear CCP4BB-ers, Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to a life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able to come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I try to keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. Many thanks in advance! --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se<mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se> ** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ** To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
You're welcome to boo this one down, but how about something like, "With a some coaxing, a protein can be X-cited to expose its structure." I think that's poor, but maybe it's a starting point. -Daniel On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:42 AM Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: > Dear CCP4BB-ers, > > Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a > side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related > sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to > a > life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! > > I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able > to > come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I > try to > keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. > > Many thanks in advance! > > --Gerard > > ** > Gerard J. Kleywegt > >http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se > ** > The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity > to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. > ** > Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the > radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume > of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! > ** > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
Thanks Bill. No need to restrict it to proteins - nucleic acids are fine (old chestnut: "DNA helicase unzips your genes!"), molecular machines are fine, even cellular structure is in scope. (If I still did crystallography, I could have gone with: "You don't have to use MAD to work here, but it helps.") --Gerard On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, William G. Scott wrote: After reflecting on this a bit, I rejected anything dealing with glide planes, and although I initially thought I had something good involving a screw axis of evil, I decided it, too, would probably be lost in translation, not to mention a bit dated. Perhaps something more current, involving electrons, would help to resolve this? I'll give it some thought this morning as I bicyle up the worst hill in the region. Unfortunately, it is still very early here, and I don't yet have the inspiration I possessed for my crowning achievement during my postdoc, which was to place a small, inconspicuous label on the outside door of the toilet facility that read "MRC Lavoratory of Molecular Biology.” (I am flush with embarrassment every time I think of that.) Can this also involve nucleic acids? I’m afraid protein structure puns might be a bit outside my domain. — Bill On Aug 15, 2019, at 4:42 AM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: Dear CCP4BB-ers, Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to a life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able to come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I try to keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. Many thanks in advance! --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se ** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ** To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 Best wishes, --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se ** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ** To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
After reflecting on this a bit, I rejected anything dealing with glide planes, and although I initially thought I had something good involving a screw axis of evil, I decided it, too, would probably be lost in translation, not to mention a bit dated. Perhaps something more current, involving electrons, would help to resolve this? I'll give it some thought this morning as I bicyle up the worst hill in the region. Unfortunately, it is still very early here, and I don't yet have the inspiration I possessed for my crowning achievement during my postdoc, which was to place a small, inconspicuous label on the outside door of the toilet facility that read "MRC Lavoratory of Molecular Biology.” (I am flush with embarrassment every time I think of that.) Can this also involve nucleic acids? I’m afraid protein structure puns might be a bit outside my domain. — Bill > On Aug 15, 2019, at 4:42 AM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt > wrote: > > Dear CCP4BB-ers, > > Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a > side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related > sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to a > life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! > > I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able to > come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I try > to keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. > > Many thanks in advance! > > --Gerard > > ** > Gerard J. Kleywegt > > http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se > ** > The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity > to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. > ** > Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the > radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume >of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! > ** > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
[ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently
Dear CCP4BB-ers, Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to a life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able to come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I try to keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. Many thanks in advance! --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se ** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ** To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1
