Notes on My Meningioma and Gamma Knife Treatment

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.

Day 7 - October 3, 2023.



Day 6 - October 2, 2023.

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Day 5 - October 1, 2023.

Day 4 - September 30, 2023

 

  

Day 3 - September 29, 2023 

  

Day 2 - September 28, 2023 

  

Day 1 - September 27, 2023.

Posted to many social media channels about my treatment with updates and other details and also got lots and lots and lots of support.

Here are some of the posts.

LinkedIn

Facebook







Instagram

 

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Twitter:

• https://x.com/phylogenomics/status/1707059212801438207?s=20
• https://x.com/phylogenomics/status/1707169906071085099?s=20

Sept. 26 - Nature Therapy





Sept 25. MRI





Blue sky: 

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:

• Facebook

• LinkedIn 

• Twitter

• Blue Sky

• Mastodon

These are the places that were recommended the most

• GENEWIZ from Azenta

• UC Berkeley

• Quintara

• Eurofins

• McLab

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: 

• Facebook
• Eurofins
• McLab in south SF 
• QB3 
• Macrogene 
• MR DNA
• Laragen
• Retrogen
• IMR
• Functional Biosciences
• LinkedIn 
• GENEWIZ from Azenta
• Integrated Genomics 
• Twitter
• Eurofins
• Quintara
• Functional Bio 
• Gene Wiz (now Azenta)
• UC Berkeley
• U Az.
• Blue Sky
• Azenta (used to be Genewiz)
• CosmosID
• Mastodon
• McLab
• Quintara

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"

It seems like they took my 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