hi guys, ok, a little about myself ... now that i've jumped in the deep end of the pool :-) im still a relative youngster i suppose ... i'll hit the quarter century mark later this year ... i live in Adelaide, South Australia - a beautiful little city, population around 1 million. Adelaide's (and SA in general) most noted for its wine, churches, rapidly aging population, bad drivers :-) and its ability to elect one inept government after another (our current state government seems to be so inept, they cant even stuff things up properly (whats new)) and most importantly, we have the best cricket ground in the world!! since i finished studying a couple of years ago, i've been working in a research lab in the Physiology Lab at Adelaide University. Our research group is investigating fetal growth and development, and in particular the impact of poor fetal development on adult life. We know alot about what happens - due to the many hundreds of epidemiological studies in humans, and thousands of animal studies, but the how (especially at the molecular level of genes and proteins and hormones etc) is still mostly an unknown ... which is where the lab i work in fits in - we're trying to examine the molecular mechanisms involved in the development and early post natal life of the fetal adrenal gland. (its a small lab - just myself and my supervisor at the moment ... and if anyone from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council is reading - we need more money please, so we can employ some more people, or get some slaves (oops, i meant students, hehe) in !! :-) ) I've read SF since i was probably 7 or 8 - perhaps not as much as i'd like, due to the inadequacies of the local library, and well, sometimes life gets in the way too :-) , and discovered D Brin a couple of years ago - and yes, i had noticed that occasionally something relevent to Brin sneaks in on this list :-) although reading about all the other stuff going is lots of fun too! Mark. Charlie Bell wrote: > > > > i started reading this mailing list about 6 months ago, and i've > > finally decided > > to pipe up and actually say something! so be nice guys :-) > > Welcome! > > Introductions, please? > > Oh, if you're here to talk about Brin, we do, sometimes. We'll be at it in > earnest when his next comes out.... :o)
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