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A few of the less known facts about our supervisor, 'Chairman' Chris French...

• Chris French can remove cultures from the shaker without stopping it.
• Chris French doesn’t need electricity to perform gel electrophoresis.
• Chris French doesn’t use pipettes. Solutions jump from one tube to another out of fear.
• Chris French can put 2ml of solution in a 1.5ml centrifuge tube.
• Chris French can autoclave pipette tips by looking at them.
• Chris French doesn’t open windows. Windows open for Chris French.
• Chris French has written a Perl script to save humanity. Unfortunately, we’re just not good enough for him.
• When Chris French grows E. coli they smell of Chanel Chance Eau Tendre.
• Chris French can produce overnight cultures in two hours.
• Chris French can cut GAATTC with XbaI.
• Chris French can drink ethidium bromide and live.
• Chris French doesn’t wear gloves to protect himself from toxic solutions. He wears them to protect the toxic solutions from him.
• Chris French can get 100 plates from a 250ml bottle of agar.
• Chris French holds the PCR machine closed with a belt to stop the samples from running away.
• Chris French doesn’t need to measure optical density. He can count the number of bacteria in a sample.
• Chris French doesn’t need antibiotics to stop bacteria from growing.
• Chris French’s plates never get contaminated. EVER!
• Chris French doesn’t use primers for PCR. He tells the DNA he needs more copies and they multiply themselves.
• Chris French doesn’t use a centrifuge, he just runs around in a circle with the tubes in his hand with the same end result.
• Chris French sends you emails from the future, just because he can.
• Chris French doesn’t pay for his Macs. Steve Jobs gives them to him so that he won’t endorse Microsoft.
• Chris French can miniprep plasmid DNA from human cells.
• The freezers in Chris French’s lab aren’t plugged into the mains. He writes on them the temperature they should be and they automatically adjust.
• Chris French can read your DNA.