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Fall Semester and the Hunt for Graduate School Begin

Aug 22, 2007 commentary

It has been a very busy and hectic late summer, and the blog activity reflects that.

On a brighter note, I just started my final year of undergraduate work at Washington State University. This semester I am taking Biochemistry, Perspectives in Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, and Human Genetics. The course load is about average, and after attending the first class sessions for each I am very excited about some and nervous about others.

I spent a lot of the summer considering my options for graduate work and concluded that I am most definitely interested in epigenetics research. I haven’t had the opportunity to discuss my research at larger conferences and meetings, or even here on the blog, but I can certainly wiling to divulge that information to labs looking for a graduate student for next fall.

As most readers know, I work in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Skinner, and am working on an aspect of the project investigating the transgenerational effects of endocrine disruptors on male fertility. The work has been both challenging and rewarding, and it will continue until graduation. But I am not going to restrict my future research to this area of exploration, and other areas of epigenetics research have especially piqued my interest. Histone modifications are probably at the top of my list, but I am excited about many areas of epigenetics research, and even staying in the area of environmental epigenomics is a distinct possibility.

If there are any labs doing epigenetics-related research in the U.S. that are seeking a hard-working graduate student for next fall, please drop me a line at admin AT epigeneticsnews dot com. I’m willing to discuss possibilities with any PIs in epigenetics, but preferably those in the northwest.

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One Response to “Fall Semester and the Hunt for Graduate School Begin”

  1. James Wachai Says:

    September 4th, 2007 at 9:51 pm

    Your blog is very exciting. Rarely do scientists use blogs to articulate issues they feel are dear to them. I am not a scientist myself, but nevertheless blog on agricultural biotechnology. My blog is called GMO Africa. The motivation of starting this blog was to educate the public on agricultural biotechnology. You know hacks have hijacked the debate about genetically modified foods. I am trying to imagine if scientists would be more forthcoming to defend crop genetic engineering. This world wouldn’t be the way it’s today.