Oh I know you all probably read Pharyngula, but just in case you missed PZs endorsement of John Dennehy at Evilutionary Biologist, heres a link! PZ was happy for the Evilutionist company, Im happy about the virologist company!
John studies bacteriophages! You know, the sweet lunar lander guys! Ive always had a crush on bacteriophages, but its never been enough to pull me away from my syncytia :P
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
I no longer feel so alone!!
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You aren't alone! I'm down in Norman and I'm a member of OESE.
Your attitude gets me so pumped about biology. And I don't even like biology ;)
Very neat stuff.
Heh, there are still a few of us who work with bacteriophages. I worked with lambda and P1 as a graduate student, and now use P22 (infects Salmonella) in some of my work.
It's not all that rare, is it?
Foxy--agreed. I'm a music teacher, and I'm still pumped.
I bet even Abbie's dog gets pumped when she talks about biology.
Susan-- Oh I meant alone in a virologist sense here, but I do feel frustrated with (what I feel) is a lack of pro-science activism and community outreach in a Creationist Danger-Zone. I really love the OESE's teacher training idea, but I know more can be done.
How can I help?
hehehe Foxy/John/Tyler-- Even the worst 'framer' on the planet would have to consciously try to make viruses dull for them not to come across as cool :P I mean common!
factician-- I just miss the company of other virologists :) I moved from a uni where I was surrounded by people who studied plant/crop/farm animal/human/etc to a place where its basically just me, my boss, and a few others, who only study human viruses.
I miss phages :(
Thanks for the promotion:)
I'm amazed by all the positive feedback. It is so nice to meet someone else working with viruses.
You might be interested a paper:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17305806&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum
In the end, it talks about the relevance to HIV:)
p.s. your dog is adorable!
You had us at Evilution, John. You had us at Evilution
hehehehe!!
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