While advancing the field of neuroscience through the development of innovative neural repair strategies is the main goal in the Carmichael Lab, we also recognize that personal health and fitness are key ingredients to academic success. Athletics are nothing new for members of the Carmichael Lab. After all, Dr. Carmichael himself was once a legend on the rugby field, Justine regularly pushes the limits of human endurance with extreme sports such as sting ray wrangling and skydiving, and my accomplishments on the high school tennis courts are highlighted in most history textbooks. For these reasons, the Annual Neurology Picnic Day represents more than just a time for family and friends to gather in the spirit of togetherness. For Team Carmichael, it is an opportunity for lab members to impose our physical dominance in a series of demanding team races and skills challenges.
For reasons that we may never understand, the Carmichael Lab was notably absent from last year’s Neurology Picnic Day. Some have suggested that perhaps we simply don’t read much of the junk mail the Neurology Dept sends out, but we in the Carmichael Lab know the real reason: a nation-wide cover-up to exclude us from competition, thus eliminating the overwhelming fan favorite and clear sentimental pick to sweep the medals, and opening the door to a new champion.
Using a series of gain- and loss-of-function analyses, Dr. Carmichael formulated the ultimate plan; an undertaking so insidious, it was surpassed only by its monumental brilliance: he enrolled Dr. Li, more commonly known as “Weapon X”, in every single competition offered at this year’s Neurology picnic, with obvious disregard to size or age requirements.
The results of these competitions and more in a future journal entry… (cue music suggesting inescapable doom)
