David likes to make cakes for special events, as do other folks in the lab. David has more cakes on the Subulate Palpomere’s cake page.
MacClade 2000
A cake in honor of the release of MacClade 4.
Tree of Life 2002
A cake in honor of the release of the database-driven version of the Tree of Life Project. The tree shape depicts the evolutionary relationships of the main component of the dishes at the tips of the branches.
Lab Warming 2010
A carabid beetle in honor of moving into our new lab at Oregon State University.
May 2010.
New Zealand 2017
In honor of Virginia Weiss heading off to New Zealand to begin her sabbatical.
December 2017.
Bembidion - rDNA read Depth 2018
A Bembidion (Trepanedoris) cake showing the variation in read-depth in the rDNA cistron between two species of Bembidion, made when John Sproul and Lindsey Barton left the lab for bigger and better things.
July 2018.