Images from the lab and the classroom

Coworker Ryan Choi has started supplying us with “fun facts of the week.” (Source for this one: omg-facts.com.)

This painting (by prolific Seattle muralist Ryan Henry Ward) sits in the hallway on my floor. I believe it represents red blood cells infected with the malaria parasite.

One of the proteins our lab is studying is human glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Today we received a 3D printer-generated model of this protein from Tami Caraballo and her students at Glacier Peak High School in Snohomish, Washington.

I love the fact that I’m teaching a course where a single page of a handout might cover both engineering of muscle tissue in vitro … and the lyrical and rhythmic structure of the 1950s hit “Hound Dog.”