Hi wevets.
I’m about to start my 4th (and last) year as an ecology and evolutionary biology major at university. I spent the summer working as a research assistant in a lab studying the ecology and life history of Arabidopsis thaliana. Which really meant I put plants in bags and counted things. But it was still fun
I’m not using much of it in my internet security career, and it is only a lowly BS, but my degree is in Zoology. I do what I can to stay as current as I can.
cell and molecular biology. right now working in bio-ethics and institutional animal care (not husbandry). Handle all issues of the IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) at my hospital. We don’t have many labs so they only need one person to drive the committee. Research assistant in the neurology department under a PI with a specific focuses on closed-head traumatic brain injury and ischemia
After my senior year of high school and 1st year of college I volunteered for over a year at a wild bird rehab facility. I was a Zoology major in college and was looking into wildlife biology/ecology and was also interested in marine biology but instead I went into a veterinary technology program. I’ve been a vet tech for 24 years and during that time have continued to take care of wildlife/birds that come into my work. But mostly I just work with dogs and cats, who still count as animals.
Food and industrial microbiology. Spent 15 years in and running NATA accredited labs, in private enterprise, government and independant consultancies. Been out of labs for a long time though.
Blue Kangaroo just got her Masters in some flavour of Biology. She’s not near the internetz this for a bit but I am sure she’ll chime in when she returns.
you with the face is an epidemiologist and works in public health. If you find foot-and-mouth in your hamburger, give her a call and she’ll launch an investigation.
I recently got my M.S. My research was in forest ecology. I want to work and earn some cash for the next couple of years, but, in the course of my master’s work, I became very interested in parasitology. (I think parasites that change the behavior of their hosts are fascinating.) I might end up in a PhD program at some point.
BS Nutrition (I don’t remember a damn thing about nutrition though!)
MS Microbiology (mostly virology, somehow I escaped knowing any bacteriology)
PhD Immunology
Postdoc Pathology
Now a working scientist in Immunology, but if I had it to do over again I’d be a chef.
Good to hear from you again, monstro - no, now I work for a marine mammal veterinary hospital doing mostly education and specimen preparation. It’s a little odd, since my work has previously been with inverts, plants, and algae, and I’ve never even taken a mammology course, but it’s temporary.
Just this past Tuesday I had a blast from the past as I met an old friend who was in town for the Ecological Society of America conference and we caught up on old wetlands friends.
Hi there! My phD is in yeast genetics and biochem. My post doc was in epigenetics and cells cycle control, and I focus mainlly on microbial genetics now.
I’m finishing up a PhD in developmental psychobiology (how the brain and behavior change over development). This fall I’m going to start a postdoc involving the development and evolution of brain organization. Yay Evo-Devo!
