My area of expertise

[petmoosie]

Well, it's either protein structure and function or reproductive biology. Of course, the students giggle more when discussing the later.

Comments

[ashtalet.livejournal.com]

Obviously, you need some better protein jokes...

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

Any suggestions? The alpha helix went into a bar (and denatured)...

And then the catalytic Asparagine attacked.

hmm.

[ashtalet.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the Science Jokes Wiki is somewhat deficient in this area...

http://science-jokes.wikidot.com/

Protein jokes

[metageek.livejournal.com]

So these two right-handed amino acids walk into a ribosome, and the transfer RNA molecule says, "Hey! We don't serve your kind here!".

Re: Protein jokes

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

that's funny (and right).

BSE

[metageek.livejournal.com]

I told cvirtue the right-handed amino acid one, and she came up with this:

Q: Why can't bovine spongiform encephalopathy get patents on its work?
A: Because it's all prion art.

Re: BSE

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

I like that one also!!!

Thanks

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

reporductive biology was Holly's bachelors specalty (then she went for a masters as a computer geek)