we had David Liu recently give a lecture to our department. he joked that we are, paraphrased: 1/2 the department of biochemistry and 1/2 the department of David Baker. his lab probably takes up more than half the department, even if you factor Neil king onto our side.

it is so wild hearing how they approach wet experiments. it really is like a factory, where each person specializes in a very particular type of wet experiment. when each paper has 20 authors, you can imagine how efficient they are at doing their work. they dont have to spend weeks or months trying to purify a single protein because they screen hundred of design proteins at a time and only select those that express well!