#i can’t remember a single pathway except for sonic hedgehog and frankly that one I’d rather forget

[willowcrowned]

Lmao I’m dying over your tags about fruit fly gene names. I listened to an interview with a geneticist who works with C. elegans a while ago and he had major beef with fruit fly geneticists over naming conventions. 😂

you know, I’m beginning to wonder if this isn’t just a normal thing for them. my professor for the developmental biology part of this course is a big drosophila guy and two weeks ago he waxed lyrical about gene naming conventions for it, which was somehow still better than the solid twenty minutes he spent today trying to convince us of drosophila’s superiority as a means of studying development and cancer (presumably as a preface to Thursday’s lesson, where he actually has to talk about c elegans organogeneis experiments). at one point he had to admit that c elegans has a shorter generation time, but he quickly alleviated his own distress by following up that harrowing admission with three minutes of describing how wonderful the Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus experiments were for the study of embryonic development

#i have zero stake in the argument I’m just so so tired of human oncogene and tumor suppressor names #i can’t remember a single pathway except for sonic hedgehog and frankly that one I’d rather forget #asks #biology #anakinsthot #willow's life