Yea yea yea, I said I was gonna blog more often again - didn't really happen up to now, I know... But it's not my fault - seriously! Life's been throwing lots of exciting stuff at me recently and I sometimes don't quite know how to deal with it. The latest thing is something I'd love to write about but I'm not sure if I should, given it's very experimental in nature... In a nutshell, I'm going to be involved in some whole exome sequencing soon (and who knows, maybe I'll even land a first-author-Nature-paper like Ng et al)? I don't really have a clue about how it works yet, but am hoping to 'get it' fairly quickly once I actually come in contact with the subject matter. In that sense.. - anyone know of a next gen sequencing course/workshop happening in Europe or the US anytime within the next 4 months?? Alternatively: Anyone willing to travel to London and tell me all about it during a nice meal (paid for by Cardiff University ;)?
Anyway, lots of stuff has been happening lately, collaborations and other fun things, also private travel galore. I've met so many awesome people lately.. and I guess that's a direct consequence of me not spending a lot of my free time glued to the screen anymore like I used to (ie not web2.0ing much). I don't want to be unfair, I've met a whole lot of lovely people online too (like You , and You.. and You) but there's nothing better than a real-life hug or even just a real-life smile. Would you agree? I hope you do.
8 comments:
I most definitely agree!
can u tell me something about agrin, I'm a bit confused.
TAK!!
... in addition do you know anything about the genes that are e pressed in neurotransmission (my key does not work).
@blub - sure you would, what with half a year of traveling and meeting awesome people ;)
@R - I presume by agrin you mean this beast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrin ??
Sorry I'm clueless, hadn't even heard the name before to be honest. Regarding, neurotransmission - there's surely a lot of genes being expressed that are involved in it. Starting from all the neurotransmitter receptors, over to the enzymes involved in NT synthesis, various kinases (like CaMKII that plays a role in LTP) and other signalling proteins, but probably also 'basic' scaffolding proteins that wouldn't normally be considered. Dunno, really. :S
cheers Laura, u've given me some sort of a lead!
Rooshin
It does not take 6 months of traveling to figure that out :)
but i'm sure it helps
As long as you've enjoyed life that is really important in this world... and also I hope you will write more article and update your blog as well. keep safe!
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