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Abbie Smith is a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. She also studies epigenetic control of ERVs.

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Shit grad students say

Category: Education

Yeah, this is so me...

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Realistic depiction of the scientific process

Category: General Science

This is what you are getting into if you want to be a scientist-- its a tangled web of '?????', not a linear chain of '!!!!!'

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Nef

Category: Lab Life

Do not count a protein dead until youve seen its body. And even then you can make a mistake.

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An deeeeen?

Category: Lab Life

ANDENANDENANDENANDEN!

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Attn all researchers: How about we just not take work laptops home from work.

Category: Lab Life

Oh the fun you could have with 133,000 names, birth dates, social security numbers!

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Conferences.

Category: Lab Life

I like going to research conferences. Well, I dont like 'going' to them-- I inevitably get migraines from traveling, and this conference, I got the bonus of extreme motion sickness on the drive from Vancouver to Whistler... But I like...

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SPRING BREAK! YEAHRG!

Category: Humor

YEEEEEEEEEAHRG!!

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lol, brb

Category: BLAG

Youll have to excuse me for a couple more days. Im participating in the time-honored tradition of "getting 90% of your data the week before you have to give three big presentations"....

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Fun with anthropomorphization

Category: Humor

Another student, me, and Bossman discussing some cool data: Another student: Thats so crazy! How could HIV do that?? Me: LOL! Its sentient. Another student: LOL! Its a conscious being with self awareness! Me: LOL! It can recognize itself in...

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Attn all researchers: Back up your computers. NOW.

Category: Education

NOW. Do not read this post. Hook your computers up to your external hard-drives, back up your data, then come back to read this post. ... Okay, Im assuming the only people reading right now are people with Apple-->Leopard-->Time Machine,...

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