tentative thesis titles

[aliki]

I'm always envious that my sister, also a Ph.D. student in the biological sciences, makes $10,000 more a year than I do. It never seemed fair, even accounting for the cost of living being higher in NYC.

Till today. When I realized that her tentative dissertation thesis title sounds WAY cooler to any grant institution handing out money than mine does.

My title is: Ecological role of the Mullica River-Great Bay Estuary in the life history of striped bass, Morone saxatilis.

Her title is: Molecular Strategy of HCMV US2-mediated MHC class I Destruction.


You see? I sound like some Jacques Cousteau sipping wine and enjoying the marine environment, while she's off saving the world by curing cancer or something.

Comments

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Except your title is actually intelligible and I can see how it has some application to the larger world, and hers is in some sort jargon that only viral specialists understand, and someone the equivalent of Carl Sagan (in molecular biology)would have to translate for me.

I suppose that's why I work for a government agency and I'm not in academia.

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you're biased! You're in fisheries science like me! LOL

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Tch tch...too true!

[wpax00.livejournal.com]

Where does she go to school? And what for?

I'm looking at immunology programs in NYC...that's why i ask!

thanks!

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Pharmacology program at Mt Sinai Medical Center.

Great school. In my junior and senior years at undergrad, I worked in a neuroendocrinology lab there and loved it.

darling....

[boudoir-no34.livejournal.com]

im going to do it!

new york in march/april ish.
i need to know if i can still stay w you still, how long and how much?

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[aparecida.livejournal.com]

Anything so minuscule that it can only be studied indirectly or by electron microscopy is sexy to grant institutions right now. Especially if it has acronyms and involves "molecular," "genetic," or "biochemical."

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. When I worked at Mt Siani, my project was an electron microscopy study of the GnRH neuron and how neurotransmitters were released. Very well funded.

[aparecida.livejournal.com]

Electron microscopy, acronyms, and biochemistry! It's like a trifecta of Words That Make Grant Institutions Get Boners!

[pansola.livejournal.com]

hahaha, is that Carol? The word "destruction" does pack a punch d-:

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Yup! That nerd!