Happy Halloween 2018 What the HEK? (most objects are human cell line HEK293 DAPI labeled cell nuclei).

Full filename: Varsha Singh and George McNamara HEK293 montage collage for Halloween 2018 - 24bit pumpkin take5 with HeLa ET - 300dpi.tif

* GM acquired the images and made the montage (collage). Dr. Varsha Singh (now Prof. Varsha Shing), JHU SOM G.I. Division provided the brilliant sub-title: "What the HEK?".

* I find most 2D image human cell nuclei labeled with DAPI DNA counterstain to look human faces (think man/person in the moon). By the way, mouse DAPI labeled nuclei have bright chromocenters (one or more DAPI bright centromeres) that make them NO look like faces.

Halloween game - play be yourself or with supervisor/colleagues,friends, family, neighbor(s), etc (hopefully will not conver them to ex's):

1. which face looks most like the head (face) or E.T. The Extraterrestrial? (it's a Steven Spielberg movie - bonus; which look most like Spielberg?).

2. Which face looks most like you? (that is, self-identify).

3. Which face looks most like the person sitting/standing closest to you right now? (hopefully they can see HH2018 at the same time.

Bonus: political figure, Beyonce, Taylor Switft, Taylor Swift's cat(s), Travis Kelce (if you don't know who Travis Kelce is. don't sweat it).

***

The self-identify thing was inspired by my supervisor at the time (circa 2000), Prof. Tom Coates, combing back from a hematology conference where the dinner banquet speaker was the creator of Psycho-Geometrics https://psychogeometrics.com (yes, the site still exists in 2024) who claimed ('hypothesized') the people could pick which of five shapes fit their personality, even without knowing what they attributed the shapes to represent (ex: triangle = leader, square = square, ex. accountant ... sure I immediately self identified as a 'squiggle' aka lightning bolt). In 2024 ChatGPT or some other A.I. could psy-geom famous dead people like Freud, Jung, any other famous psych people (are there any?) for both p-g and HH2018.