Thursday, March 20, 2008

MY BROTHER THE PhD


Colby and I jet-setted out to San Diego last weekend to see my little brother defend his doctoral disseration at UCSD. His reseach has been in the area of Bio-chem/human genetics and his paper was entitled "Allele-specific Gene Regulation in Humans. It was WAY over my head but still extremely interesting. I almost flunked Biology 101 at Mount Holyoke and I will admit that I have no clue what an allele is even after listening to his talk. But I am so proud of all his hard work and determination! Congrats! Here is a link to a paper that he wrote that was accepted by Nature: Methods magazine: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/index.html Look partway down on the left side for the ChIP SNP article. He is the "Maynard" in the "Maynard et al"! Way to go NATE!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is so awesome! Haha from all of the pictures I take it that Colby has finally been able to start solid foods? -Sara B

nate said...

Thanks for the plug, sis.