I've moved to a small but serviceable apartment in Albany, NY. I will be starting a rotation at a laboratory at the Albany Medical College on Monday, as part of a Ph.D. program in the Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease. Topic of research will be NLRs, a type of receptor found in the cytoplasm of cells. These receptors are activated by ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in over a year, I think. Here's what that year has brought me ( Read more... )

I figure it's time for another update ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

When I was working on my degree, I couldn't help but feeling like this a lot of the time. One of the reasons I'm now going for biology.

After you die...
In the Ground

After death, you will cease to exist. In all likelihood, your carcass will be deposited in the ground.


( Read more... )

The story thus far ( Read more... )

I have to admit, this doesn't paint a very positive image of me. But it's pretty accurate.

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||| 23% Stability |||||||||||||| 53% Orderliness |||||||||||||| 53% Accommodation |||||||||||| 50% Interdependence |||||||||||||| 56% Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 70% Mystical || ( Read more... )

Oh, God, he's going to write about himself again.

After graduating from Bradley with a degree in English, and after accepting a short-lived freelance job with a small newspaper, I decided to scrap the writing thing and follow my childhood dream: SCIENCE. Biology, in particular. For the past few months, I've been working to find out exactly the ( Read more... )

I just don't know what to say about this. So here are some excerpts ( Read more... )