I find out in a week and a half, so... A spot would pretty much be the best birthday present ever, particularly as I really like the prof. Basically all the cell biologists are associate Microbi faculty, so there's really just one list, unless I want to go with botany (which I don't, which is why I gave the list of names of people looking for students given to me to Yana).

And all the people I've talked to here, both faculty and other students, have said to read the papers, and talk about that, and what you find interesting about their research :\