Traber lands at TerraSep

August 14, 2009

In case you missed it, according to this blog post at the Chronicle, Peter Traber, BCM’s ousted president, appears to have landed the CEO position at a Mountain View-based biotech startup called TerraSep. This information couldn’t be confirmed by the Chronicle reporter. Unfortunately, not much about TerraSep is known–they don’t even have a website.

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At Last, My Thesis is Published!

July 14, 2009

The results of my doctoral dissertation have been published in Nucleic Acids Research, at long last!
You’ve probably been wondering for months about the images in the right column of this blog. My doctoral dissertation described the effects of torsional stress on the structure of DNA. It is well known that DNA is slightly underwound inside [...]

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HIMSS 2009 Recap

April 12, 2009

As I mentioned in another post, I was in Chicago this week for the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). I’ve been focussing on opportunities in healthcare IT (HIT) in my role at AlphaDev, and I thought this conference would be a great way to learn more about the role [...]

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BioCamp Houston 2009: Success!

April 12, 2009

I’m a little late posting this–I’ve been in Chicago for HIMSS this week. The important part is that BioCamp Houston 2009 was a success! We had about 40 attendees for our first BioCamp and they stayed all day. There were several great presentations that started some good discussions.
I’d like to thank our sponsors: DFJ [...]

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Rice-BCM Merger Official – Not!

April 7, 2009

Update: Silly me. I fell for an April Fool’s prank.
Here’s what I had previously written:
I just heard that President Leebron of Rice has made the announcement. I’m sitting in O’Hare airport blogging this on my iPhone, so I’ll post more when I get home. I’m very excited about the news, though. This is a [...]

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BioCamp After Party

March 30, 2009

We’ve arranged for Valhalla, Rice’s grad student bar, to be opened at the conclusion of BioCamp on Saturday so that people can continue their discussions over beers. So be sure to stick around after the event from 4-6pm and enjoy a cold one!

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