Argh...

[vecturist]

Waiting for my advisor to send me his comments on my thesis proposal - I need to send copies to my committee on Friday and need some feedback. Luckily, I am meeting tomorrow with a friend who's also looking over it. Between now and the 18th, I will be studying like crazy for my comps where I have to defend my proposal

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[kristen999]

What is your thesis about?

[vecturist]

It's tentatively titled 'When good fungi go bad.' I'm looking at several fungi which are part of the environment and usually function as decomposers but are starting to emerge as opportunistic pathogens - infecting people who are immuno-compromised. Most of my experiments center around expression levels of certain genes which help build cell walls and if expression changes at higher temps - the temperature of the human body is a huge deterrent for potential infecting organisms. I''m also trying to see if there are major genetic differences between classes of fungal pathogens - some only infect plants, some only infect humans, and some can infect both

[pavaneofstars]

Sounds interesting. :) Good luck with that and all of the studying. Then you can chill in Burbank with all of the cool kids. ;)