My brothers dream come true: baseball meets bioinformatics

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Some quick notes on mini trip to DOE-JGI & UCSF

Well, just got back from a very brief trip to give a talk at UCSF.  I was invited by graduate students via the following email message

The students in the DeRisi Lab at UCSF are thrilled to invite you as our selection for the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and Integrative Program in Quantitative Biology (iPQB) Invitational Speaker Series!  This is a new type of speaker series at UCSF where students from a laboratory directly nominate and invite speakers from outside UCSF to deliver lectures about cutting-edge topics in quantitative biology.  All nominations are discussed by a QB3/iPQB student committee, and a speaker list is compiled from many outstanding nominations.  The invited speakers are scientists who gathered especially strong support from their nominating lab and the QB3/iPQB student committee, and who have an outstanding record in delivering exciting research talks grounded in quantitative methods. As our selected nominee, your travel, lodging and food expenses will be covered by funds from QB3/iPQB.

It was impossible to say no - I am always thrilled to be invited by student groups.  It took a bit to coordinate when I would come (I am notoriously bad at planning and answering such invitations).  But eventually, with a little prodding, I answered and we picked a date. I of course then asked to change the date and we settled on February 17.