What's your area and level of expertise?

Arctangent

I'm in second year uni working towards a degree in Plant biology, genetics specialization and I'm also doing a minor in earth sciences.

yay botany! :)

Moonbear

I haven't had a chance to welcome aboard all the new biology afficionados in a while. Glad to have so many new participants in here.

Ken Ramos

I am not an expert on anything in the biological sciences, however I am an amateur protozoologist and macro and microphotographer. I enjoy learning from others and sharing that which I have learned and photographed in the smaller world of nature. Attached is a sample of my work. Paramecium spp. @ 400X Zeiss Axiostar equipped with a Sony DSC-P200 digital camera attached to the trinocular port of the microscope head. Image is @ 7 megapixel.

As for my real area of expertise, I am an Air Launched Missile and Guided Missile Systems Technician. Of course this has no real relavence to biology does it?

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Astronuc

Where do I get one of those?

I suppose I can order an Axiostar from Zeiss and find a compatible digital camera.

Dr.Brain

I am in second year of MSc(Hons). Biological Sciences , I am doing a dual degree with Computer Sciences.

BJ

shruth

Hi! I'm a newbie. Just entered my first year of grad school in neuroscience after finishing medschool. Still in my lab rotations and torn between deciding whether to go molecular or electrophysiological!

adrenaline

so are you in the Md?Phd track or just a career change? Plan on going back to clinical medicine or full time research or both? congrats!

shruth

Thank you epinephrine :-)
I'm done with my MD (both literally and figuratively) and am planning on a career as a full time neuroscientist.

Moonbear

That's great! Glad to have you on board! Have you seen the Mind & Brain forum here yet? We have enough neuroscientists around here to make it worth splitting the neuro stuff from the other biology. Well, after doing your clinical rotations in med school, you should be well-prepared to handle the long hours in the lab that grad school demands.

RYAN2008

Hello everyone,
I am currently an undergrad student majoring in Biological Sciences and Chemistry. Although I may not have much experience in the field it is definetly my passion. My specific field of interest is molecular genetics in prokaryotes. I am new to this site and hope to learn a great deal from others here. I am undecided as to what I want to pursue as my career. Looking into dental school but also open to graduate programs.

Schrodinger's Dog

I have a GCSE(about the equivalent of your US education in biology at age 16 in an exam) hehe. I supose you don't have to have letters after your name to have a keen interest in any subject. Also did a course in general A level science(high score graduate level) as a precursur to a physics Degree which I've just started(well a maths course actually but same difference). Saying that I can put letters after my name cause of that cause it was a university qualification. Cool I wanna see my bank manager be nice to me for a change
Oh I think it does when those things hit

Guns don't kill people Physics and biology do

Monique

Elaborate, that does not make sense.

shruth

Neither guns, nor physics nor biology kill people. It is people who kill people. It is the job of biology to figure out why they do so.

Evo

I've never known that to be a part of biology.

Monique

It isn't.


And biology does kill people: diseases

DocToxyn

Don't forget toxins and toxicants .

Schrodinger's Dog

I was joking you know

I think blood being sucked out of you and your heart stopping has something to do with biology and physics.

I agree with Goldy Looking Chains view of guns anyway:

Guns don't kill people rappers do, I saw it in a documentary on BBC2