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Hi guys this is the fireworks over the city of Dundee on the East Coast of Scotland to honour the victims of the Tay Rail bridge disaster in 1879 28th Decemeber, when 59 people died when the old bridge collapsed during the storm
The picture is taken from the Law Hill and the blue department you see is the Dundee University Life Sciences department where I did my PhD and graduated in 2009
Dundee is called the city of discovery as its home to Captain Scott's Discovery ship which was built in Dundee
Dundee is a beautiful city and in my opinion the best place in the world because I was born and brought up here
We also have a £1 billion redevelopment plan and it's always something amazing happening here Dundee is home to many pioneering technology's like P53 tumour suppression gene and key hole surgery and Scotland as a whole has contributed to science for centuries I don't need to list as many already know
Across the river is Fife and you can just make out the rail bridge on the right
So Asif, not to be nosy??? but are you a medical DR.??? My Dad's Radiological Oncologist, was DR. Mahmood, my Dad who was very old school, appreciated Dr. Mahmood, very greatly as he was giving my Dad radiation to maliatte the pain, I believe Dr. Mahmood had a great relationship with my Dad, and I later advocated for one of my own cancer patients on Hospice to receive the same treatment, as our pain management using narcotics wasn't quite doing the job. I was the Chaplain/Volunteer and Bereavement Coordinator, the Hospice didn't want to use radiation as it was quite expensive, but we were able to overrule their objections. My Navy Dr. Captain Tom. H had mentioned Thalidimide Therapy to devascularize tumors which I found quite intriguing... Thanks for all your great pix and posts, bax
asif iqbal
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Ah very nice to hear AFB, great story there, no I am not a medical doctor, I did my PhD in biophysical applications in molecular biology at the Life Sciences department in a three year PhD I published four scientific papers two of which are first author and one which was accepted into the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) co-authored by Taekjip Ha who's PhD supervisor was Steven Chu who won the Nobel prize in Phyiscs and is the 12th United States Secretary of Energy, hardly any PhD student has such a honour only because my own supervisor was also a world leader in the research area plus a little bit of hard work on my part lol
My work mainly focused on the use of Flourescece Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) to study dynamics of biological molecules in solution
My four papers are located here I also won two Class medals and received the award for best poster presentation, in my final year I was offered a post doc place at Stanford School of Medicine at Stanford University in USA
Well, we are very proud of you as well, and as my Uncle Henry used to say "you are a gentleman and a scholar", your even handed and fair observations are a credit to us all, congratulations on your new baby, I have no doubt you are a great Dad. Blessings to you and your family Asif, biology was one of my favorite subjects, alas my poor old analog mark 1, just doesn't care for algebra and the higher math, but I have a profound admiration for those who are true scientists. bax
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Ahh, the good ole Biophys. J. I have two publications in that journal as well. One of the best biophysics journals in the world. Sadly, I have moved away from biophysics somewhat. You can't get funding with all the physics. Heck, you can't even get funding with pure biology. My focus now is more of an interface between biophysics, biochemistry and molecular biology. I still need to add some animal models to the mix if I want to get the big funding...
FRET is also one of the main techniques that I use. The only difference is that mine is FLIM-based (fluorescence lifetime), not intensity-based. The FLIM system is cleaner and less hassle, in my opinion.
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asif iqbal
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FLIM wow nice! Are you a PhD student which lab are you wokring in, do you know Bob Clegg, sadly he passed away last year he was my external examiner and a great guy!
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Not any more. I got my PhD (in biophysics/ bioengineering) almost 7 years ago and did two postdoctoral fellowships following that (one in physiology and one in biochemistry/ molecular biology) and got a faculty position two years ago. I know of Bob Clegg from studying his publications on FLIM, but do not know him in person. He was a leading expert in FLIM. It's very sad that he has left us.
I use many quantitative imaging techniques, like EM, FLIM-FRET, FRAP, TIRF and plain ole confocal, etc. got some cool pictures of mammalian cells and fly brains...
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Man you fellows have a lot of education..I'm impressed. Why two of our members have IQ equal to that of the entire 10,000+ members of mp.net!!
Eny who.. My lovely wife bought me a low priced tablet for Christmas. It's fun but I find it near impossible to type. My fingers are too fat. She has no problem using it or her Apple ipad mini... I do use it to watch videos and play the only video game I ever enjoyed. That would be angry birds.
Eny who.. My lovely wife bought me a low priced tablet for Christmas. It's fun but I find it near impossible to type. My fingers are too fat. She has no problem using it or her Apple ipad mini... I do use it to watch videos and play the only video game I ever enjoyed. That would be angry birds.