The Ketchum Report (Continued)

[Rockape]

Wait, you can earn a doctorate in public administration?

[Guest]

Well, at least they haven't got confirmation from a witch-doctor, as of yet, but I haven't ruled out the possibility.

I take back my opinion on the way Rhett Mullis went about releasing his info, btw. I was schooled earlier on the facts, and I apologize. She goes too far.

Edited April 23, 2013 by PacNWSquatcher

[Guest]

Looks like Robin's been busy, eh?

[Guest]

Wait, you can earn a doctorate in public administration?

You can earn a doctorate in just about anything. Heck, if you're a lawyer, you can actually get two doctorates. The JD that everyone has and an SJP (Doctor of Legal Science) or LL.D. (Doctor of Law).

Edited April 23, 2013 by leisureclass

[southernyahoo]

A retired physical chemist who has studied paint pigments is hardly the right person to verify her paper's claims. And the other PhD referenced on her Facebook page today has a doctorate in public administration.

Gee, why can't she find support from PhDs in the right disciplines ... like genetics or bioinformatics or statistics?

I'm not so sure about that, a physical chemist delves into many interesting things on molecular and atomic levels. Not saying he would be a geneticist or that he could confirm her findings but potentially could help understand some of the failures in extraction of the nuDNA. That does involve chemistry.

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1188&content_id=CTP_003398&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=782d0d6a-22cf-4905-b205-5fd5042d21f0

[Guest]

Maybe the co-authors could help. Oh wait forget it....my bad.

[georgerm]

Look how many Phd in genetics Michigan State University has employed. Seems like we could find somone who can comment on MK research.

Art Alberts (VARI), PhD, University of California-San Diego. Role of small GTPases and their effectors in actin and microtubule organization; breast cancer.

Andrea Amalfitano (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, Michigan State University. Applications and evaluation of gene transfer technologies for use in treatment of acquired or inherited human diseases. amalfit1@msu.edu

Eran Andrechek (Physiology), PhD, McMaster University. Bioinformatic approaches in combination with model systems to examine breast cancer.

David Arnosti (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Eukaryotic transcriptional regulation, developmental genetics in Drosophila melanogaster.

Cindy Arvidson (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Bacteriology; protein targeting, virulence, and regulation of gene expression in the pathogenic Neisseriae.

Bill Atchison (Pharmacology and Toxicology), PhD, University of Wisconsin. Environmental toxicant/gene interaction in neurological and cardiovascular disease.

Michael Bagdasarian (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), M.D., PhD, Medical Academy (Warsaw). Secretion of proteins in bacteria; pathogenesis; vaccines.

Cornelius Barry (Horticulture), PhD, The University of Nottingham. Analysis of the genetic mechanisms that regulate development and ripening of fleshy fruits.

Marc Basson (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), M.D., University of Michigan, PhD, Yale University. Intracellular signals by which physical forces such as pressure and shear regulate cancer metastasis and mucosal healing in vitro and in vivo.

Christoph Benning (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, Michigan State University. Biosynthesis and function of membrane lipids in photosynthetic organisms; molecular and biochemical genetics of Arabidopsis and photosynthetic bacteria.

Robert Britton (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, Baylor University. Genomics of Bacillus subtilis, genomics of probiotic/pathogen interactions, genomics of prokaryotic chromatin remodeling factors, gene expression mechanisms in Lactobacillus sp.

C. Titus Brown (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, California Institute of Technology. Genome-scale sequence analysis and functional genomics.

Robin Buell (Plant Biology), PhD, Utah State University. Genomics of plants and plant pathogens.

Suzanne Alexandra Burt (Psychology), PhD, University of Minnesota. The role of gene-environment interplay in the development of delinquent or antisocial behavior across the lifespan.

Zachary Burton (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. RNA polymerase II-associated proteins; transcription factor IIF.

Julia Busik (Physiology) PhD, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Yokohama, Japan. Understanding the pathogenesis of diabetic complications with a special emphasis on diabetic retinopathy. busik@msu.edu

Christina Chan (Chemical Engineering & Material Science) PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Apply system biology approaches to reconstruct signaling and gene regulatory pathways to help elucidate disease mechanisms and identify pharmaceutical targets

Jin Chen (Plant Biology) PhD, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Bioinformatics, as well as its interface with machine learning and algorithms.

Hans Cheng (USDA Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory), PhD, University of California, Berkley. Structural and functional genomics of disease resistance in chicken.

Martin Chilvers(Fungal Biology) PhD, University of Tasmania. Fungal biology, epidemiology, fungal genetics, host-pathogen interactions, diseases of field and vegetable crops, nucleic methods of pathogen detection.

Jose Cibelli (Animal Science), PhD, University of Massachusetts. Developmental Biology, nuclear transfer cloning, primate embryonic stem cells.

Jeffrey Conner (Plant Biology), PhD, Cornell University. Plant/pollinator interactions; evolutionary ecology; ecological genetics.

Susan E. Conrad (Microbiology), PhD, California Institute of Technology. Control of proliferation in normal & transformed cells; estrogen regulation of human breast cancer cell proliferation.

Yuehua Cui (Statistics and Probability), PhD, University of Florida. Statistical genetics/epigenetics; QTL, eQTL and nucleotide mapping complex disease; bioinformatics.

Brad Day (Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences), PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Molecular genetics and biochemistry of disease resistance in plants.

Dean DellaPenna (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, University of California, Davis. Plant biochemistry, especially relating to phytochemicals of importance to human nutrition, and structural and functional aspects of the plant cell wall.

Jerry Dodgson (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry), PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Chicken genome mapping and transgenic poultry.

Ke Dong (Entomology), PhD, Cornell University. Molecular genetics, electrophysiology, and pharmacologyof insect voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels; molecular mechanisms of insecticide resistance.

Ian Dworkin (Zoology), PhD, University of Toronto. Quantitative and population genetic/genomic analysis of phenotypic variation and evolution; association mapping and developmental genetics of shape, evolution of cis-regulatory variation, transcriptional profiling.

Brian Epperson (Forestry), PhD, University of California, Davis. Theoretical population genetics, plant genetics, spatial statistics.

Catherine Ernst (Animal Science), PhD, Ohio State University. Livestock structural and functional genomics; pig development genetics.

Walter Esselman (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, Pennsylvania State University. Expression and function of protein tyrosine phosphatases and kinases in the regulation of signaling and transformation in T lymphocytes.

Susan Ewart (Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Animal Science), DVM, Michigan State University, PhD, Johns Hopkins University. Genetic susceptibility to asthma and other allergic diseases; equine genetics.

Eva Maria Farre (Plant Biology) PhD, Max-Planck Institute. Plant circadian clock and its role in plant growth and development.

Monique Floer (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, Rockefeller University. Effects of chromatin architecture on regulation of gene expression in mouse macrophages.

Michele Fluck (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of Geneva. Neoplastic transformation of polyomavirus; control of viral- and host-DNA replication by the viral oncogene; mammary gland oncogenesis.

David R. Foran (Foresnic Biology), PhD, University of Michigan. DNA isolation and profiling from forensic samples, technique development, forensic casework.

Karen Friderici (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Pediatrics and Human Development), PhD, Michigan State University. Molecular pathology of human genetic disease; genetics of hearing loss.

John Fyfe (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Small Animal Clinical Science), DVM, Washington State University; PhD, Pennsylvania. Animal models of inherited metabolic disease; molecular pathology.

Michael Garavito (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, Purdue University. Structure of membrane proteins involved in organelle biogenesis and division; protein crystallography.

Jim Geiger (Chemistry), PhD, Princeton University. Structural biology: structure and regulation of transcription inititation in eukaryotes; structural biology of starch synthesis and inositol synthesis. geiger@cem.msu.edu

Rebecca Grumet (Horticulture), PhD, Michigan State University. Molecular genetics of plant disease resistance.

Brian Haab (VARI, Biochemistry), PhD, UC Berkeley. Genetics alterations that enable or trigger cancer cell differentiation process.

Kyung-Hwan Han (Forestry), PhD, Michigan State University. Metabolic engineering of plant species; genomics of secondary growth.

James F. Hancock (Horticulture), PhD, University of California, Davis. Evolutionary and physiological consequences of polyploidy in plants; evolution of mating systems.

Sandra Haslam (Physiology), PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Role of epithelial-stromal cell interactions and tissue microenvironment in normal and cancerous breast development and growth regulation.

Sheng Yang He (Plant Biology & DOE Plant Research Lab), PhD, Cornell University. Molecular interactions between plants and pathogenic bacteria.

R. William Henry (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, University of Alberta. Transcription of human small nuclear (sn) RNA genes as a model system to understand mechanisms of transcription and regulation of gene expression.

Susanne Hoffmann-Benning (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, Michigan State University. Analysis of the role of phloem transport as well as cell wall and cuticle synthesis for the regulation of plant growth and development.

Gregg Howe (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & DOE Plant Research Lab), PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Molecular genetics of plant-insect interactions; regulation of plant defense responses.

Jianping Hu (Plant Biology & DOE Plant Research Lab), PhD, University of Georgia. Genetic analysis of peroxisome functions and the crosstalk between peroxisomes and other organelles in Arabidopsis.

Marianne Huebner (Statistics and Probability), PhD, University of Southern California. Host-parasite systemsin mathematical ecology; statistical issues in data analysis of microarray experiments; genetic association for complex traits; gene regulatory networks.

Ning Jiang (Horticulture), PhD, University of Georgia. The relationship of transposable elements and their host organisms; how transposable elements shaped their host genomes while amplifying themselves.

A. Daniel Jones (Biochemistry and Chemistry), PhD, Pennsylvania State University. Development and application of mass spectrometry for metabolomic analysis to probe gene functions and cellular responses to stress.

Jon Kaguni (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Mechanisms of DNA replication and its regulation in Escherichia coli.

Laurie Kaguni (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD., University of California, Los Angeles. Mechanisms of eukaryotic DNA replication; organization and structure of chromosomal DNA replication origins; regulation of DNA synthesis during Drosophila development.

Norbert Kaminski (Pharmacology & Toxicology) PhD., N. Carolina State University. Mechanisms of toxicant/gene interactions leading to impaired immune regulation and function. kamins11@msu.edu

Andras Komaromy (Small Animal Clinical Sciences), Investigation of molecular and cellular disease mechanisms of inherited retinal and optic nerve disorders. Development of new treatments using gene therapy and neuroprotective agents.

Will Kopachik (Zoology), PhD, Princeton University. Gene expression in prostate development.

Donna Koslowsky (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of Washington, Seattle. RNA editing; organelle gene expression in trypanosomes.

Lee Kroos (Biochemistry and Microbiology), PhD, Stanford University. Gene expression during prokaryotic development.

Leslie Kuhn (Biochemistry and Molecular biology), PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Developing computational approaches for protein folding, ligand interactions, and design.

Min-Hao Kuo (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, University of Rochester. Mechanism of gene regulation via modifications of chromatin: cell cycle regulation of histone modifications in yest S. cerevisiae.

John J. LaPres (Biochemistry and Food Safety and Toxicology), PhD, Northwestern University. Molecular pharmacology and toxicogenomics of the PAS family of transcription factors.

Robert Last (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University. Arabidopsis functional genomics; regulation of plant metabolic pathways for nutritionally important molecules; plant stress tolerance mechanisms; metabolic engineering of plants.

Richard Lenski (Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Microbiology, and Zoology), PhD, University of North Carolina. Genetics of evolving populations of bacteria.

Keith J. Lookingland (Pharmacology & Toxicology) PhD. University of Maryland-Baltimore. Development of Neuroprotective Pharmacological Agents and Strategies for the Treatment of Dopamine Neurodegenerative Disorders including Parkinson's Disease and Restless Legs Syndrome. lookingl@msu.edu

Qing Lu (Epidemiology), PhD, Case Western Reserve University. Statistical genetics in human complex diseases.

<a href="http://www.vai.org/Research/Labs/SystemsBiology.aspx">Jeff MacKeigan(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, University of North Carolina. Systems biology approaches to identify and understand the genes and signaling pathways that contribute to the pathophysiology of cancer and neurodegeneration. jeff.mackeigan@vai.org

Linda Mansfield (Large Animal Clinical Sciences and Microbiology), VMD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Development of swine model to examine the pathogenesis of and the mucosal immune response to Campylobacter jejuni. mansfie4@cvm.msu.edu

Laura McCabe (Physiology), PhD, University of Chicago. Molecular mechanisms of bone loss under unloading conditions (disuse, spaceflight) and in disease (diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer). mccabel@msu.edu

Katheryn Meek (Veterinary Pathology), DVM, Texas A&M University. V(D)J recombination; DNA double strand break repair B lymphocyte development. kmeek@msu.edu

Richard J. Miksicek (Physiology), PhD, University of Minnesota, Breast cancer and normal mammary gland biology, emphasizing the role of steroid hormones and their receptors in gene expression and cell growth. miksicek@msu.edu

Kyle E. Miller (Zoology), PhD, Emory University, Investigation of the mechanism of axonal elongation. kmiller@msu.edu

Cindy Miranti (VARI), PhD, Harvard Medical School. Integrins and cell adhesion, signal transduction, and growth factor receptors in meastatic melanoma and prostate turmorigenesis. cindy.miranti@vai.org

Beronda Montgomery (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, & DOE Plant Research Lab), PhD, University of California, Davis. Molecular basis of organ-specific phytochrome responses in higher plants; Light-regulated development in cyanobacteria. montg133@msu.edu

Martha Mulks (Microbiology), PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Genetics and virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria. mulks@msu.edu

John Ohlrogge (Plant Biology), PhD, University of Michigan. Genetic control of plant lipid metabolism; genetic engineering of plant oils. ohlrogge@.msu.edu

Katherine Osteryoung (Plant Biology), PhD, University of California, Davis. Molecular mechanisms of plastid division in Arabidopsis. osteryou@msu.edu

Simon Petersen-Jones (Small Animal Clinical Sciences), DVetMed, PhD DVOphthal DepECVO MRCVS, University of London, University of Cambridge. Molecular investigation of herediatry eye diseases in animals, progressive retinal atrophy to identify the causal gene mutations. peter315@cvm.msu.edu

C. A. Reddy (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of Illinois. Physiology and molecular biology of lignin biodegradation by wood-rotting fungi; biodegradation of xenobiotics; bioremediation. reddy@msu.edu

Gemma Reguera (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of University of Oviedo, Spain. Molecular genetics of microbial energy transduction: genetics and enviornmental engineering; applied microbiology for bioremediation, nanobiotechnology and bioenergy. reguera@msu.edu

Douglas Schemske (Plant Biology), PhD., Illinois. Ecological genetics of adaptation and speciation in natural plant populations. schem@msu.edu

Brian C. Schutte (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of Chicago. The Schutte lab uses genetic and molecular genetic approaches to study craniofacial development in humans and in murine models. schutteb@msu.edu

Debra Schutte (Nursing), PhD, University of Iowa. Genetic and environmental predictors of the clinical features of Alzheimer disease, Genetic and environmental predictors of pain, Molecular genetics/genomics and common complex health problems of the elderly. schutted@msu.edu

Richard Schwartz (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Transcription in hematopoietic differentiation; oncogenesis. schwart9@msu.edu

Kim Scribner (Fisheries and Wildlife and Zoology ), PhD, University of Georgia. Population genetics, behavioral ecology, molecular evolution, conservation genetics. scribne3@msu.edu

Barbara Sears (Plant Biology), PhD, Duke University. Chloroplast genetics and molecular biology; nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions in plants; controls of organelle heredity. sears@msu.edu

Alexander Shingleton (Zoology), PhD, Clare College, University of Cambridge. Genetic basis of size regulation in Drosophila; role of insulin-signaling pathways in integrating development with nutritional conditions.shingle9@msu.edu

Shin-Han Shiu (Plant Biology), PhD., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Evolutionary genetics and bioinformatics; gene family and genome evolution, functional divergence of duplicate genes, and effects of polyploidy on duplicate gene retention.

Mariam B. Sticklen (Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences), PhD, Ohio State University. Production of biofuels and industrial material from crops via genetic transformation. stickle1@msu.edu

George W. Sundin (Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences), PhD, Oklahoma State University. Evolution of bacterial plasmids, biochemical and evolutionary significance of mutagenic DNA repair, molecular genetics of plant-bacterial interactions, genomics of plant-bacterial interactions. sundin@msu.edu

Hideki Takahashi (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Chiba University, Japan. The molecular mechanisms of the uptake and metabolism of nitrogen and sulfur in plants.

Robert Tempelman (Animal Science), PhD, University of Wisconsin. Hierarchical Bayesian and mixed effects modeling applied to problems in quantitative genetics and statistical genomics. tempelma@msu.edu

Suzanne Thiem (Entomology), PhD, University of Idaho. Genetics and molecular biology of insect baculoviruses. smthiem@msu.edu

Michael Thomashow (Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Microbiology, & DOE Plant Research Lab), PhD., University of California, Los Angeles. Molecular genetics of cold acclimation in higher plants; regulation of gene expression in response to environmental stress. thomash6@msu.edu

Frances Trail (Plant Biology) PhD, Cornell University. Genetics and physiology of fungal plant pathogens. trail@msu.edu

Steven Triezenberg (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, University of Michigan. Regulation of eukaryotic transcription; molecular biology of herpesviruses. triezenb@msu.edu

Bruce Uhal (Physiology) PhD, St. Louis University. Lung epithelial stem cell function; regulation of epithelial cell death (apoptosis); molecular mechanisms of lung fibrogenesis and repair. uhal@msu.edu

Steve van Nocker (Horticulture), PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Chromatin control of gene expression in plant development, histone code, transcription, epigenomics. vannocke@msu.edu

Patrick Venta (Small Animal Clinical Sciences), PhD, University of Michigan. Mammalian genome mapping; genetics of diseases. venta@msu.edu

Claire Vieille (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, Université Paris 7 at Institut Pasteur. The design and development of industrial biocaltalysis. vieille@msu.edu

Kevin Walker (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, University of Washington. Functional analysis of enzymes from biosynthetic pathways of plant-derived bioactive compounds.walker284@msu.edu

Jonathan Walton (Plant Biology & DOE Plant Research Lab), PhD, Stanford University. Molecular plant pathology. walton@msu.edu

Dechun Wang (Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences), PhD, Michigan State University. Soybean breeding and genetics in disease and insect resistance, seed quality, and agronomic performance. wangdech@msu.edu

Hongbing Wang (Physiology), PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Calcium-stimulated signaling and gene expression in the brain. wangho@msu.edu

Chris Waters (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of Minnesota. The role of quorum sensing and chemical signaling in bacterial pathogenesis. watersc3@msu.edu

Sainan Wei (Pediatrics and Human Development), PhD, Michigan State University. Human genetic disorders including hearing loss, cystic fibrosis and cancers. (weisaina@msu.edu)

Michael Weinreich (VARI), PhD, University of Wisconsin. Initiation of DNA replication and DNA repair in yeast and mammalian cells. michael.weinreich@vai.org

Barry Williams (Zoology, and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of Illinois. The molecular basis of evolutionary diversification and stasis in yeasts. barryw@msu.edu

Curtis Wilkerson (Plant Biology), PhD, North Carolina State University. Discovering the enzymes and transcription factors that are responsible for the biosynthesis of hemicelluloses in the plant cell wall. wilker13@msu.edu

Robert Wiseman (Physiology), PhD, Florida State University. Muscle Physiology and remodeling in disease. The role of stem and satellite cells in muscle adaptation. Magnetic Resonance imaging and spectroscopy in animals and humans. rwiseman@msu.edu

Peter Wolk (Plant Biology & DOE Plant Research Lab), PhD, Rockefeller University. Developmental biology, biochemistry, and genetics of cyanobacteria. wolk@msu.edu

Zhiyong Xi (Entomology), PhD, University of Kentucky. Genetics of Infectious Disease: Functional genomics of dengue viruses-mosquito interactions; endosymbiont as a gene drive system for insect disease vectors. xizy@msu.edu

Hua Xiao (Physiology), PhD, University of Toronto. Roles of transcription cofactors in breast and liver cancers; mechanism and regulation of gene expression. xiaoh@msu.edu

Chengfeng Yang (Physiology) PhD, National University of Singapore. The roles of microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs in cancer. yangcf@msu.edu

Kefei Yu (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of Southern California. Molecular immunology, recombination and class switching in immunoglobulin genes. yuke@msu.edu

Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, University of Istanbul Medical School. Canine genome mapping, comparative mammalian genetics, cancer genetics. vygsu@msu.edu

Tim Zacharewski (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), PhD, Texas A&M University, Molecular, biochemical and whole animal toxicology, effects of chemicals on gene expression, mechanisms of endocrine disruption in human wildlife models, functional genomics, gene expression profiles, receptor-mediated endocrine disruptions. tzachare@msu.edu

Yong-Hui Zheng (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), PhD, Hokkaido University Medical School, Japan. Host restriction to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). zhengyo@msu.edu

[Guest]

Maybe Wally will do the right thing, as irritating as it is for him, and the hassle...and no gain, but a public record and the truth would be nice.

Edited April 23, 2013 by apehuman

[Cotter]

LOL! Well, start hanging out with the folks from the DOI....you'll come across someone willing to talk!

[Guest]

Cotter, thanks, although wrong thread! But, it might fit here too!

On Wally suing Melba...wish he would...breach of contract...something...why? Can you imagine a court case...all the way to a jury trial on Bigfoot proof? It might end up generating the audience required to weigh the evidence of BFs in a kind of collateral way...hummm....and Wally then could have the book written...that combines several of these dangling efforts....hummm..... it could be epic! And Federal court too....not a bad plan really, depends I suppose on the real facts....

[TimB]

And hey- if the lawsuit doesn't happen, he could send a group of people onto a public message board and have them swamp the board with inflammatory rhetoric couched as fact until people start to believe it. I'm almost positive something like that would work.

[Cotter]

@Ape -LOL!

D'OH!

[Guest]

That does involve chemistry.

SY, there is a HUGE difference between a physical chemist and a biochemist. This guy is a physical chemist.

[southernyahoo]

It all depends on what they are working on shboom2, they are multidiciplinary.

Just saying that one could have some meaningful input, but at the fundamental level of chemical reaction., like which occurs in PCR when a geneticist amplifies DNA for sequencing., but not so much in the comparative analysis of sequences, though with high math skills, they might not make bad bioinformaticists or statisticians.

When asked to describe physical chemistry, the renowned chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis is purported to have responded: “Physical chemistry is everything that is interesting!†In fact, physical chemists aim to develop a fundamental understanding at the molecular and atomic level of how materials behave and how chemical reactions occur, knowledge that is relevant in nearly every area of chemistry. These scientists study diverse topics, from biochemistry to materials properties to the development of quantum computers

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[dmaker]

And hey- if the lawsuit doesn't happen, he could send a group of people onto a public message board and have them swamp the board with inflammatory rhetoric couched as fact until people start to believe it. I'm almost positive something like that would work.

Awesome idea! Let's do that!