Friday, April 21, 2006

I should say something about my job . . .


. . . after all, it's the main reason I came to Minnesota. :-)

I came here to study the disease lupus. More specifically, I study the genetic contributions to lupus in my work as a postdoctoral research assistant in Tim Behrens' lab at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus). This is a bit of a shift from my graduate work, in which I studied computational protein design in Steve Mayo's lab at Caltech.

One symptom of lupus is a malar rash, as seen here. Click here for more info on lupus.

I'll try to talk more about my research and my labmates in the coming weeks. :-)

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