So - on 9/27 I had Gamma Knife treatment at UC Davis for a posterior fossa meningioma that was first found by MRI about 6 years ago. I am going to be collecting my various posts here on the saga. I am also going to post separate posts here about the saga but just wanted to collect some of the other posts for now.
The Tree of Life
Blog of Jonathan A. Eisen, Professor at U.C. Davis.
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Notes on My Meningioma and Gamma Knife Treatment
Day 20. October 17.
Really brief updates.
Had some horrible headaches last week but as of a few days ago these have lessened. No significant fatigue or brain fog so that is good.
Also - I decided to test my ability to fly on Friday and flew into a concrete pillar at a gas station and smashed my shoulder quite badly. Fortunately it was not broken but it still hurts like hell a few days later and have not slept very well since then. The good news is, this got me to forget about the Gamma Knife treatment ...
Day 13. October 10.
This was definitely a bad day. Went in to work in the AM thinking I might be able to work for their day.
First went for a really brief walk at the UC Davis Riparian Preserve. That was nice.
Then went to my office in the Genome Center. Saw some colleagues which was nice and chatted for a bit. Then hit by unbearable headache where my head felt like someone took 1000 big rubber bands and wrapped them tightly around my head.
So I went home. Took ibuprofen which did not help. Napped a bit. But nothing helped. Took a bath. Did not help. And that is how the rest of the day went.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Sanger DNA sequencing services
Sanger DNA Sequencing Services
So I posted a request to multiple social media sites:
Question - are there good / cheap services out there to do Sanger sequencing (e.g., for 16S / ITS for taxonomic identification of cultures)? The local Sanger operation we were using shut down.
I posted to the following sites:
These are the places that were recommended the most
These had single suggestions
- Macrogene
- MR DNA
- Integrated Genomics
- Functional Bio
- U Az.
- CosmosID
- Laragen
- Retrogen
- IMR
- Functional Biosciences
These are how the suggestions mapped to the different sites:
- Eurofins
- McLab in south SF
- QB3
- Macrogene
- MR DNA
- Laragen
- Retrogen
- IMR
- Functional Biosciences
- Eurofins
- Quintara
- Functional Bio
- Gene Wiz (now Azenta)
- UC Berkeley
- U Az.
- Blue Sky
- Mastodon
- McLab
- Quintara
Thursday, August 24, 2023
And today in one of the stranger uses of my work ... "130 Academic Words Ref from "Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes | TED Talk""
Well, this is certainly a bit wacky.
I was, well, Googling myself today and found this.
130 Academic Words Ref from "Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes | TED Talk"
and got key words from it, and then use it to teach about those words in some sort of automated way. And, well, they got a few words wrong but actually the words they chose kind of capture a lot of what my talk was about. So here are a few screenshots of some of these key words
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