Need more time
My apologies for abandoning my blog; I’ve been beyond busy. In the past few months I’ve lived the life of an insanely busy research professor. Here is a little update of what’s been going on:
1. Proposals, proposals, proposals. Scientists survive or better yet thrive by proposing to do interesting, important, hypothesis driven science and then publishing the results of those studies. In the past few months we’ve submitted proposals to the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to expand our work in computational biology. I’ll write more about these exciting projects when we get more information on their funding status.
2. I started a company with Dr. Adam Marsh called Evozym Biologics to harness some software and technology we developed. You can read all about us on the new website.
3. Inventions made by Professors or students or post-docs in academic laboratories are usually “owned” by the University. Then, this intellectual property is licensed to a company so the technology can be put to good use. This requires a licensing agreement between the institution and the company. This apparently takes a long time with lots of bureaucracy and is summarized well here.
4. Peer-reviewed articles. We’ve recently submitted two papers- one of genome architecture in pathogens and free-living microorganisms and another on proteins found in microbes. Stay-tuned for more information.