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Extreme Environmental Sampling Wanted
Stopping on the road, I venture over the railing, walking down the embankment. The heat at the waters edge overwhelms me. The smell of salt and bitterness is in the air.
It will be exciting to investigate what microbial communities inhabit these salt flats. Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Experiments, Microbes, Science / Engineering
Tagged Abu Dhabi, Environmental Sampling, Extreme environments, halophile, Microbes
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Home, Sweet Home
Finally, the Don is home. Sweet home. Continue reading
To Infinity and Beyond
We are officially expats. The movers showed last Monday and packed what was left of our belongings into neat symmetrical boxes all cataloged and labeled. A snapshot of where our life stopped in Boston ready to be picked up 6 weeks later in Abu Dhabi. Continue reading
A Tale of Two Cities Planned
I had known that the ‘urban development’ squad had severely affected the area, but it did not prepare me for the barren landscape I encountered. Continue reading
So long MIT
It is not a good by, but a so long to MIT and Boston. We will be back soon. Continue reading
Fall is here; faculty job search begins
I am stepping out from a secure and relatively safe environment of working in someone else’s laboratory and crossing the line to being the leader in my own laboratory. Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Science / Engineering
Tagged Academic Job Search, Education, Ideas, Information
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Love at First Bite
She cast a spell over me. Enchanting me with her insightful observations, her long curly hair, her sensual body, but most of all her, snaring me in her gastronomic web. It was love at first bite. Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Food / Restaurants
Tagged Drinks, Food / Restaurants, Havana Club, Love, Mojito, Spice
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Thankful for being able to do what it is that I do …
I get this look of fear and awe when I explain that the things I study grow at 100-200 atmospheres, at temperatures between 50-75 degreed centigrade, and under acidic conditions so extreme it would peel the skin off your bones. Like I said, this is pretty cool stuff Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Experiments, Microbes, MIT, Science / Engineering
Tagged Daily Life, Experiment, Extremophiles, Microbes, MIT, Research, Science / Engineering
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Center for Alternative Technology – Paul Allen
Last Friday, Paul Allen from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Machynlleth Mid-Wales spoke about the centers work during seminar in the Parson’s Lab. He is the CAT Development Director and co-author of the Zero Carbon Britain (ZCB) report. … Continue reading
Thermoplasma acidophilum -a model organism to study iron stress in microbes?
How does T. acidophilum manage the high concentrations of soluble iron, or other metals, liberated by its acidic environment? Continue reading
