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Our annual, end-of-Michaelmas OPIG celebrations took place this at the start of December in the MCR (Middle Common Room) at Lady Margaret Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OPIGmas is a much-anticipated combination of pot luck, Secret Santa, and party games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perhaps Jay’s megaphone topped the list of gag gifts…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Olly C<\/a>\u2014one of OPIG’s most accomplished statisticians\u2014will soon be moving to the Department of Chemistry to start his own group. Some kind Secret Santa Soul thought he needed a lab coat:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Charlotte<\/a> brought a selection of delicious English champagnes:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Isaac<\/a> works with transformers\u2014can you tell? (and those in the know will recognize that familiar pattern on his wrapping paper…):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fabian’s<\/a> antibody sure looks like a lobster…<\/p>\n\n\n

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It seem’s Ruben’s<\/a> Secret Santa thinks his recent preprint<\/a> makes excellent wrapping paper:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nele’s<\/a> new timer might come in handy at Antibody Meetings (I hear…):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lucy’s<\/a> festive Santa Jaws T-shirt:<\/p>\n\n\n

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and Gemma’s<\/a> Calma Llama (anybody seeing the immunoinformatics connections yet…?):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Henriette’s<\/a> anticipation builds…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yael’s delighted: \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jay’s<\/a> megaphone about to be put to the test:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Arun’s<\/a> about to learn from Ben Goldacre:<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u00cdsak’s<\/a> new hat coordinates perfectly with his ensemble:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yours truly<\/a> with new bird feeder, perfect for the winter garden (thank you, Secret Santa!):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Leo’s<\/a> Secret Santa thought he needed his own personalized blonde hair dye:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Carlos<\/a> with new apron (hamburger restaurant-themed, playing on an analogy he made during one of his recent OPIG talks):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Steph<\/a> now has fragments of a different kind: her new jigsaw puzzle pieces:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Martin<\/a> with his new deep learning-based-docking-inspired molecular puzzles (definitely not PoseBusters<\/a>-valid!):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ms. Q’s new notebook:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Matt’s<\/a> propensity for punnery should be satisfied for about a week… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n

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Eoin<\/a> received a festive new mug:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kate<\/a> with her new toucan:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sometimes pandas<\/a> can be frustrating: Alexi<\/a> now has an improved version:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alex<\/a> with his latest molecular models:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alissa<\/a> with her Christmas cracker:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Matteo<\/a> must be crazy for cookies: \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n

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But then again, who isn’t?!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thank you to Matteo for being our resident photographer!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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