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Matthew Surdel's Amazing Homepage!
Molecular Biology Spring 2010
Permission from Matthew Surdel. Image from
personal collection taken outside Denmark's Kronborg Castle,
also known as Hamlet's Castle, looking toward Sweden.
Project #1: My Favorite Protein - Gal4 (due Feb 17)
Project #2: My Favorite Orthologs of Gal4 (March 10)
Project #3: Gal4 in Jmol!!!!!! (April 9)
Project #4: My Favorite Paper Review (April 30)
My Research Interests:
“Veni, Vidi, Volo in Domum Redire”
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
St. Francis of Assisi
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not
something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning
of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Ali
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
John Lennon
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
Saint Jerome
24 "Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be
like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; 25 and the rain
fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house,
but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And
every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be
like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; 27 and the rain
fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that
house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it."
Matthew 7:24-27
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
GK Chesterton
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Bernard Bailey
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called
electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been
drinking.”
Dave Barry
"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later."
Mitch Hedberg
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
Marilyn Manson
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Steven Pearl
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only
become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of
order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the
convenience.
Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Comedy Central Presents
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
Please direct questions or comments to my email name at masurdel@davidson.edu