Employment

I worked for 34 years in biomedical research in universities, but took early retirement in 2020.

Tree stump grinding for me was a rather boring, repetitive, and mind numbing activity but it was offset by the beautiful gardens I've worked in and at some very interesting locations. Further, each job presented me with an access challange of how to manoeuvre a one tonne four wheeled machine in back gardens to its intended target. I am able to utilize my transferable skills in my retirement. In my direct way ---which hopefully will not be misinterpreted, How do you apply your skills level. What aspects were involved ---CRISPR, AI protein folding,---- etc ?

Away from a lab. skills in things like heterologous protein expression and mass spectrometry are difficult to apply to everyday life. However, I have skills in researching and analysing written material and in writing concise and logical reports, so I edit subjects that interest me on Wikipedia. I have created around 38 new articles on Wikipedia and never had one rejected.

We were making the rockets out of aluminium foil, they weren't dangerous to any great extent. They were just strong enough to direct the thrust out of the nozzle at the base, rather than through the sides. More dangerous was putting pellets of dry ice into sealed microfuge tubes, they did explode quite energetically.

The majority of the DNA of most living organisms (not viruses) is 'non-coding' which means that it is not directly used for producing proteins. Some of the rest is used for important things like control of DNA expression (when and where genes are expressed) and other useful functions like telomeric DNA. The rest is apparently non-functional, like the remains of viral DNA and suchlike. The DNA I was looking for was that coding for known drug targets - looking at the molecular basis of drug resistance - or for potential drug targets. The latter being DNA coding for proteins vital to the growth of the pathogen, but not found in humans, or being sufficiently different in humans that knocking out the pathogen protein (enzyme) would not lead to adverse effects on any human who was infected.

We were making the rockets out of aluminium foil, they weren't dangerous to any great extent. They were just strong enough to direct the thrust out of the nozzle at the base, rather than through the sides. More dangerous was putting pellets of dry ice into sealed microfuge tubes, they did explode quite energetically.

The majority of the DNA of most living organisms (not viruses) is 'non-coding' which means that it is not directly used for producing proteins. Some of the rest is used for important things like control of DNA expression (when and where genes are expressed) and other useful functions like telomeric DNA. The rest is apparently non-functional, like the remains of viral DNA and suchlike. The DNA I was looking for was that coding for known drug targets - looking at the molecular basis of drug resistance - or for potential drug targets. The latter being DNA coding for proteins vital to the growth of the pathogen, but not found in humans, or being sufficiently different in humans that knocking out the pathogen protein (enzyme) would not lead to adverse effects on any human who was infected.