http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4L4M8m4d0
Yes, I know, it's amazing.
According to examiner.com the Zheng Lab is part of the Pathology and Immunology department at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. The school is one of the only private medical schools in the greater southwest and was ranked in the top 25 schools of 2011 in the "US News & World Report".
(This is the specific link: http://www.examiner.com/dance-in-los-angeles/lady-gaga-science-geeks-parody-bad-romance-video)
According to their website, the Zheng lab is:
"studying the molecular and cellular bases for the fundamental properties of an effective immune response, such as specificity, affinity, and memory using the techniques of cell and molecular biology, and in vitro and in vivo models of immune responses.
Also, we are applying similar approaches to understand the pathology of aging and autoimmune diseases."
Their current projects focuses on antigen driven lymphocyte differentiation, Germinal center biology, Immunosenescence and Autoimmunity.
According to the first site, the woman who is impersonating Lady Gaga is Mary Wiese, and soo of course I tried to find a paper written by her and the lab. And I did! I have included a link to the one that I found below. I will share more if I find more.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20862215
Anyway, I know this post mostly consisted of information from other websites (that I'm sure you all have already seen) but I thought it would be a good opportunity to come back to one of the original intentions of the blog which was to talk about the people involved in science today and even touch upon aspects of science culture when given the opportunity.
Scientists can be witty and creative in ways that people don't always expect!
Ihave YET ANOTHER post, courtesy of my friend Monica Vitti, who is amazing, shared this with me via the great and all-powerful facebook. I felt that I needed to pass this along. Thank you Kevin Van Aelst for being much more creative than I am and appreciating the beauty of science via food. This is the website that is the source of all this creativity: http://www.kevinvanaelst.com/art.html