Hi, everyone -

I'm a 5th year Bioengineering PhD at UPenn, and loving it :) My research is on neutrophils and how they interact in different shear environments!

What is everyone else researching or interested in studying?

- Dodo.

I'm a Biology PhD student at Caltech going into my fourth year, working on cryo-electron tomography.

I'm finishing up a MS in the genetic control of programmed cell death @ MD Anderson Cancer Center.

I'm starting the 3rd year of a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology (whatever the hell that is) at Washington University in St. Louis.

Right now, I'm looking at the transcriptional control of ES cell differentiation, especially into the hemangioblast (a precursor of both hematopoietic and endothelial cells)

I'm starting the 3rd year of a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology (whatever the hell that is) at Washington University in St. Louis.

Right now, I'm looking at the transcriptional control of ES cell differentiation, especially into the hemangioblast (a precursor of both hematopoietic and endothelial cells)
Cool! What's you're approach?

I'm finishing up a MS in the genetic control of programmed cell death @ MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Sup E :)

That sounds like very nice research especially doing it at MD Anderson, one of the nations top cancer center. Are you thinking of doing a MD afterwards?

I'll be done with my undergrad in December and planning to apply for grad school in Cancer Biology as soon as I take the GRE. Had no idea you were in the med center. I'm nearby at Baylor. Just found a part time lab tech position in the Molecular Virology dept there. Yeah, it's just a tech position, but I finally found a job where I can be in a lab, get more experience since I am lacking, and looks like I can start a research project as soon as I am competent enough :)

Maybe I'll bump into you walking about the med center :D Well if I knew how you look like :o

Hello :)

I am starting my 5th year of Immunology PhD at Alberta. My research involves preserving b-cell mass in human islet transplantation for type 1 diabetes.

-Treg

I'm starting my M.S. in biotechnology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Right now I am studying DNA topology and how it relates to recombination.

Evo-

We use murine stem cells. At this exact moment, I have 3 different lines going: R1, a knockout, and a tetracycline-responsive conditional over-expresser. Our lab uses a liquid-differentiation protocol that generates 3-dimensional structures from ES cells in culture that contain all three germ layers (mesoderm, endoderm, ectoderm). I'm immensely happy with the work that I'm doing. I also do qRT-PCR to examine changes in gene expression and ChIP to assign different transcription factors to promoters/enhancers of genes that I'm interested in.

How 'bout yourself? You're almost done, aren't you?

I'm a 3rd year combined degree student with concentration in the Biomedical sciences - in particular Skeletal, Crainofacial and Oral Biology. My project involves modeling of a human disease (cherubism) in transgenic mice. Glad to see a basic research forum.

8th (and FINAL) year Md/PhD at Penn. Neuro PhD. We'll see about residency. ;)

P

Hi, everyone -

I'm a 5th year Bioengineering PhD at UPenn, and loving it :) My research is on neutrophils and how they interact in different shear environments!

What is everyone else researching or interested in studying?

- Dodo.

I'm in my 7th year of my MSTP; almost done with my Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor. I am working on splicing mis-regulation in myotonic dystrophy, a form of muscular dystrophy.

Sup E :)

That sounds like very nice research especially doing it at MD Anderson, one of the nations top cancer center. Are you thinking of doing a MD afterwards?

I'll be done with my undergrad in December and planning to apply for grad school in Cancer Biology as soon as I take the GRE. Had no idea you were in the med center. I'm nearby at Baylor. Just found a part time lab tech position in the Molecular Virology dept there. Yeah, it's just a tech position, but I finally found a job where I can be in a lab, get more experience since I am lacking, and looks like I can start a research project as soon as I am competent enough :)

Maybe I'll bump into you walking about the med center :D Well if I knew how you look like :o
I'm sure that we already have!

Don't knock the tech position. Use it to be agressive and get experience with as many different techniques as you can (and get good at them). Having experienced hands is grad school will save you LOTS of grief.

And yeah, I'm going to medical school next fall; once done I'm going to work as a physician scientist. Can't get research outta my brain. :)

Good luck with your application and don't hesistate to ask questions. It's a confusing process sometimes.

Evo-

We use murine stem cells. At this exact moment, I have 3 different lines going: R1, a knockout, and a tetracycline-responsive conditional over-expresser. Our lab uses a liquid-differentiation protocol that generates 3-dimensional structures from ES cells in culture that contain all three germ layers (mesoderm, endoderm, ectoderm). I'm immensely happy with the work that I'm doing. I also do qRT-PCR to examine changes in gene expression and ChIP to assign different transcription factors to promoters/enhancers of genes that I'm interested in.

How 'bout yourself? You're almost done, aren't you?Liquid-diff protocol? Sounds cool. :thumbup:

I work in D. melanogaster, and we created a couple of transgenic lines with truncated portions of the reaper promoter region ("Promoter bashing') to fish out regions which are responsible for the control of its expression. We complemented this with a bioinformatics approach and came up with a couple of candidate transcriptional activators and repressors. I focused on one repressor, Tramtrack69, which represses reaper mRNA expression during nervous system development. I've used EMSAs and genetic techniques to confirm this relationship.

hello everyone here ,i am a new comer!And i am the 1st phd in Tsinghua University,CHINA.My researsh now is on ECG Automatic Analysis Software,THK U! ;) :luck:

Wow,
Been a while, look what I find when I came back...cool..a PH.D forum..awesome..SDN is the best :love:

Wow,
Been a while, look what I find when I came back...cool..a PH.D forum..awesome..SDN is the best :love:

Hey EC, long time no see.

You're doing a PhD? If so, in what?

Wake up, Forum!!!