• Question: If You Could Have Somthing Named After You What Object ect. Would It Be ?

    Asked by gonegaming to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 18 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Benjamin Hall

      Benjamin Hall answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      The things I work on tend not to get named after people. They have really boring functional names. For example Predicted Extracellular RxLR dEER Domain 2 and Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Kinase Kinase Epsilon are the two proteins I’m focusing most of my attention on at the moment.

      I’m also not particularly vain and might feel uncomfortable having something named after me, I don’t know why but it just wouldn’t feel right.

      If I HAD to pick something, I’d say a new species of plant.

    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      An asteroid or a planet. It’s more likely that I get to name a protein domain or structural motif after myself though.

      The Dave Domain. Sounds pretty cool.

    • Photo: Sam Horrell

      Sam Horrell answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      Having an element names after me would be pretty cool. It would live there forever on the periodic table. “Horrellium” Maybe.

    • Photo: Susana Teixeira

      Susana Teixeira answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      An atomic particle! People could shoot Susanas at atoms, or accelerate Susanas around a synchrotron.

      Or perhaps a pain killer? Here, have a Susana to make you feel better 🙂

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