bio
I am a graduate of the University of Chicago, where I received a BA in the the art of Biological Sciences. I finished a tad early and spent a year working as a teaching assistant in the Biological Sciences Division of the University, trying to help non-bio majors with basic understandings of biological concepts. I loved the teaching experience; having a captive audience for my ramblings on the awesomeness of evolution and genetics was wonderful.
Oh, and while at UChicago I worked for a couple of years in Robert Haselkorn‘s lab on a drug-screening project in yeast. This resulted (years later) on the first (and only) publication with my name on it.
In February of 2009 I went to Uganda for the Peace Corps, where I was supposed to be teaching high school science. Things didn’t work out (described in some blog posts) and I came home after three months. My middle brother (Stoz) and I then started an online business, Mindforge Technologies, which was fun but never made it past the startup stage, since Stoz went back to school and I decided to get some more lab experience while applying to graduate school.
After that segue, I ended up in Justin Fay’s lab at Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine (you have to write the whole name of the school to avoid ambiguity) as a lab tech. The work is yet unpublished but comprised of another drug screen in yeast that yielded some neat results that I can’t talk about until publication.
Much of that lab time was spent learning Python and re-learning R so that I could analyze the large datasets that I got from the drug screens. All in all, it was a wonderful work experience that assured me that research science was the right career choice.
Now I have joined my lovely wife at UT Southwestern where I am working towards a PhD in Cell Regulation. I work in a systems biology lab with my advisers Drs. Altschuler & Wu, where I am working on a project to map out adult stem cell fates in the intestine (sounds neat, huh?). To do this work, I use, modify, and make my own computer vision software for analysis of beautiful fluorescence images of cells.
If you’re looking for more, just read my blog to figure me out. I’m pretty transparent (both literally and figuratively).
contact
You can easily get a hold of me by posting a comment to this page. Your personal info will, of course, be sold to the highest bidder.
No, seriously, this isn’t Facebook. I’ll keep your info secret and safe! Alternatively, you can find me on LinkedIn, Flickr, Google+, Mendeley, and probably a thousand other sites that I’ve forgotten I have accounts with.
I was wondering if you installed texmaker 1.8, I had some problems.
I don’t recall. I’ve reinstalled my OS a few times since I got out of school, and haven’t had the opportunity to use LaTeX since. Whichever version I had though, I didn’t have any problems with that were the fault of the program.
interesting blog. Keep the good job up.
nice area you’ve set up here! eat mints! this place is amazing! I could wander around here for weeks!
Amazing site, Adman. With rather complicated content, I might add.