It's that time again, when I go off to learn something new, rub shoulders with colleagues and students and insist that happy hour is a necessary part of the scientific method...
It's been two years since my last posting - those that follow this blog probably aren't surprised. As per usual I only post when I have something to share of intellectual relevance and being a stay at home mom who worked contract intermittently isn't particularly relevant...unless you are counting the times I threatened to swab my daughter to find out what organism is contributing to her foul mood.
But I have reentered the field full-time as of about a year ago and here I am back at a meeting I haven't attended in 9 years. Having trained on the environmental microbiology side ASM was my meeting during graduate school, when I jumped ship to dengue virus ecology and evolution as a post doc my meeting changed to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) for 5 years. Now I have returned to my roots and am back with an environmental focus in my research still continuing to search for my niche...and that illusive tenure track position, or any permanent position really.
I am currently a research assistant professor at St. Cloud State University working in metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of anaerobic digester systems in an attempt to reconstruct pathways and microbial consortia associated with high biogas output. The funding is an energy grant and their interest is the conversion of biogas to electricity. I am still heavily bioinformatics however have delved back into the wet lab as we set up projects and train undergrads and Master's students.
I have some of my own ongoing somewhat funded work in antimicrobial resistance marker detection/quantification and decay. I also have several in silico projects that pile up and get disseminated out as I have time or I find a student interested in the work. I still collaborate with my PhD mentor finishing up some work related to my PhD and I continue to collaborate on dengue work or any other viral work as the need arises with my collaborators at WRAIR. Keeping myself relevant as I can until I land somewhere permanent and can define my focus as I see fit...or, you know, as the grants I get see fit *face palm*.
Finally, in keeping with being the traveling salesman of academic wares I teach within the Minnesota State System as requested at community colleges or any of the universities. I taught Anatomy and Physiology II for a semester at Inver Hills Community College and Advanced DNA Techniques at St. Cloud State. So I take teaching jobs as they come up. I love teaching so while I don't have a permanent home yet, I am quite content with my current activities.
Alright - enough about me - let's get to this years ASM Microbe 2018 meeting. As with large meetings, where you can't attend everything - you will be at the mercy of what I particularly find interesting, but hopefully you'll find something you like within my posts over the week-plus that I am posting on the meeting.
Best,
DrM
It's been two years since my last posting - those that follow this blog probably aren't surprised. As per usual I only post when I have something to share of intellectual relevance and being a stay at home mom who worked contract intermittently isn't particularly relevant...unless you are counting the times I threatened to swab my daughter to find out what organism is contributing to her foul mood.
But I have reentered the field full-time as of about a year ago and here I am back at a meeting I haven't attended in 9 years. Having trained on the environmental microbiology side ASM was my meeting during graduate school, when I jumped ship to dengue virus ecology and evolution as a post doc my meeting changed to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) for 5 years. Now I have returned to my roots and am back with an environmental focus in my research still continuing to search for my niche...and that illusive tenure track position, or any permanent position really.
I am currently a research assistant professor at St. Cloud State University working in metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of anaerobic digester systems in an attempt to reconstruct pathways and microbial consortia associated with high biogas output. The funding is an energy grant and their interest is the conversion of biogas to electricity. I am still heavily bioinformatics however have delved back into the wet lab as we set up projects and train undergrads and Master's students.
I have some of my own ongoing somewhat funded work in antimicrobial resistance marker detection/quantification and decay. I also have several in silico projects that pile up and get disseminated out as I have time or I find a student interested in the work. I still collaborate with my PhD mentor finishing up some work related to my PhD and I continue to collaborate on dengue work or any other viral work as the need arises with my collaborators at WRAIR. Keeping myself relevant as I can until I land somewhere permanent and can define my focus as I see fit...or, you know, as the grants I get see fit *face palm*.
Finally, in keeping with being the traveling salesman of academic wares I teach within the Minnesota State System as requested at community colleges or any of the universities. I taught Anatomy and Physiology II for a semester at Inver Hills Community College and Advanced DNA Techniques at St. Cloud State. So I take teaching jobs as they come up. I love teaching so while I don't have a permanent home yet, I am quite content with my current activities.
Alright - enough about me - let's get to this years ASM Microbe 2018 meeting. As with large meetings, where you can't attend everything - you will be at the mercy of what I particularly find interesting, but hopefully you'll find something you like within my posts over the week-plus that I am posting on the meeting.
Best,
DrM
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