The BioBus Daily News

Leave it to worms to bring out the best in people. We discovered 2-lips today on the bus while searching for crawling keratocytes on the bus.

The students at the Harlem GED program I’ve been teaching are really wonderful. I had a group on today with amazing questions, and many were eager for more! I will be coming back here for the next couple of weeks to work with these students.

Lots of progress since my last post – making plans with a bunch of schools, the bus is getting better equipped everyday, and Biana is setting up an earth day extravaganza.

Other exciting news, I got a grant to travel to Barcelona for a few months this summer! I will be doing research in a fly lab, and hope to bring back lots of new techniques to the bus. The lab I will be in does some amazing imaging of fly’s during metamorphosis. But this also means I will be gone for May and June. I will pick up again in July with some road trips and the Fall will be very busy with schools – the schedule is already starting to fill up!

Still have lots to post about the Columbia Open-Bus – that was a really fun day and Lynn took some exceptional pictures.

And, this is the first post from the bus itself! I now have a cellular wireless connection AND a new computer. The computer is the gift of the most generous Matt Valley. Thanks Matt!!

I have not written for a while because things have been VERY VERY busy – and also very exciting – on the BioBus in the last few weeks.

First off, Friday is an open-bus day at my alma matter, Columbia. I will be on College Walk (116th btw. Broadway & Amsterdam) from 10AM until 5PM, with a break for lunch in the middle. If you are around or know anyone there, please invite them!

I’ve started teaching a class of students in an adult GED program in Harlem. The students are great and we’ve been having a lot of fun with metaphors of viruses as spanish conquistadors and of course looking at all kinds of different cells on the microscopes. This will be a regular gig – Tuesday and Thursday of every second week through April.

We also had a great day last weekend at Rubulad kids day – I just updated the website with lots of pictures. There were two groups – a younger 3-5 year old group and then an older 7-10 year old group. Both groups were really fun to work with, and I think everyone had a fun time. Lynn helped out a lot with that event, and we got paid with really yummy burritos that one of the parents made.

I am also proud to say that we are officially a New York State educational not-for-profit corporation now, under the name Cell Motion Laboratories, Incorporated. Any donations from now on will be tax exempt once or final federal approval is attained in the next months.