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tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
For the moment, my usual state of stress over assignments and extracurriculars has been put aside in favor of completely giddy optimism. ^_^ I finally got up the nerve to email one of my professors for biology. He mentioned the "RNA world" theory in class a few days ago, so I asked him if he knew of any recent research papers and of any labs in the area working in that field. He replied this morning with a list of seven papers, most of which I haven't read already, and two researchers in the Boston area.
One of them is a Nobel laureate, in the Molecular and Cellular Biology department. I actually looked at his faculty page before, and unfortunately he happens to be really excited about bioinformatics. He's researching exons and methods of identifying exons through sequence analysis, which is fascinating reading material, but not what I want to be doing in my nonexistent free time. The other is actually one of the scientists whose papers I read a few years ago. I think I did know that he was at Massachusetts General Hospital, but after I couldn't find his name on the Harvard Medical School staff, I thought I had hallucinated it or something. I looked at his lab page, and their current research projects are exactly what I've been looking for. I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, but right now, I refuse to think of any worst-case scenarios. I think I'll go and email him, and maybe also the head for the Center of Genomics Research, later.
I'm also pleased because I finally returned the BN.com order, without a mishap, because there's a perfect challenge on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
temps_mort that I am going to do on time, homework or no homework, and because I've caught up on assignments in all but one of my classes. (Well, so far. I may slip behind again if I don't get to work soon.) Oh, and there's a comp meeting for the HIR tonight, when I'll finally get around to meeting my mentor for the comp and maybe finally figuring out a topic for my first article.
And to complete my mood, I have Spiral episodes to watch if I get too bored. ^_^ All right, have to go memorize that dialogue now. Why we have to memorize dialogues is beyond me, but I suppose it'll be useful.
...Tari
Post-script: My fellow AP Biology students may remember Meselson? As in Meselson and Stahl? The experimenters who proved the semiconservative model of DNA replication by tagging the backbone? Someone, please, nod here. Well, Dr. Meselson is a member of the faculty, currently researching the problem of why sexual as opposed to asexual reproduction may have selective advantages for protists.
For the moment, my usual state of stress over assignments and extracurriculars has been put aside in favor of completely giddy optimism. ^_^ I finally got up the nerve to email one of my professors for biology. He mentioned the "RNA world" theory in class a few days ago, so I asked him if he knew of any recent research papers and of any labs in the area working in that field. He replied this morning with a list of seven papers, most of which I haven't read already, and two researchers in the Boston area.
One of them is a Nobel laureate, in the Molecular and Cellular Biology department. I actually looked at his faculty page before, and unfortunately he happens to be really excited about bioinformatics. He's researching exons and methods of identifying exons through sequence analysis, which is fascinating reading material, but not what I want to be doing in my nonexistent free time. The other is actually one of the scientists whose papers I read a few years ago. I think I did know that he was at Massachusetts General Hospital, but after I couldn't find his name on the Harvard Medical School staff, I thought I had hallucinated it or something. I looked at his lab page, and their current research projects are exactly what I've been looking for. I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, but right now, I refuse to think of any worst-case scenarios. I think I'll go and email him, and maybe also the head for the Center of Genomics Research, later.
I'm also pleased because I finally returned the BN.com order, without a mishap, because there's a perfect challenge on
temps_mort that I am going to do on time, homework or no homework, and because I've caught up on assignments in all but one of my classes. (Well, so far. I may slip behind again if I don't get to work soon.) Oh, and there's a comp meeting for the HIR tonight, when I'll finally get around to meeting my mentor for the comp and maybe finally figuring out a topic for my first article.And to complete my mood, I have Spiral episodes to watch if I get too bored. ^_^ All right, have to go memorize that dialogue now. Why we have to memorize dialogues is beyond me, but I suppose it'll be useful.
...Tari
Post-script: My fellow AP Biology students may remember Meselson? As in Meselson and Stahl? The experimenters who proved the semiconservative model of DNA replication by tagging the backbone? Someone, please, nod here. Well, Dr. Meselson is a member of the faculty, currently researching the problem of why sexual as opposed to asexual reproduction may have selective advantages for protists.
