I have finished! My master's thesis that is ;) I am now waiting for comments from the evaluators... let's hope that they'll be nice ;) Everyone's in vacation this week in the lab... I have the feeling that the end of July will pass sloooooowly... :| Hopefully the (lucky) girls that were at the AIDS 2004 conference in Bangkok will be back this week with lots of interesting stories... At least I have work to do : write my (top secret!) doctorate project, which i'll propose soon to my director! Exciting stuff, I swear ;) Just to show some art I've done recently (text is in French... and no, I'm not sorry!). Comments appreciated ;) Posted it using BloggerBot ... very usefull stuff for picture hosting!

Oh my god... i'm almost done! Two of my colleagues finished reading it today and provided me with some advice, which I appreciate a lot. Writing is weird (especially in French); you can reread you a million time without spotting errors or confusing paragraphs. External advice before terminal evaluation is therefore always nice to have ;) Too bad this site doesn't offer pictures hosting, I managed to create some very nice pictures of HIV-1 depicting structure of the virus... all in French, obviously ;) It's sad but good art in science is very rare; everything seems to be done with circles and boxes in MS paint. And the concept of scale is everything but implemented, which can often lead to misinterpretation. Photoshop courses should be the norm in science! :) Now let's get this finished, once and for all...

I always feel extremely tired on weekends. Must be cause I wake up at 1:00 pm to recover from lost sleep during the week. Can't be good for circadian rythms ;) On this subject, very interesting research is done via microarrays on drosophilia... check it out on pubmed! Very elegant stuff (life never cease to amaze me!) See : DNA microarray analyses of circadian timing: the genomic basis of biological time by Duffield GE for a good review. Watched the world chess championship match today (finals between Adams and Kasim). It was a very intense match! And Adams won, so there's a final match tomorrow (and rapid blitz in case of a draw). The winner get to play Kasparov... can't wait to see that ;) Now let's get some work done... cmon, just 2 graphs to do...

Let me introduce myself. I'm a scientist working on AIDS. Well, technically, i'm still a student, but in academics, we're stuck this way for a loooooong time. And i'm only 24 ;) I'm specializing in two (currently) very hot areas of science - bioinformatics and HIV. Let's just hope that bioinformatics ain't just a trend like the .com bubble :) At least HIV ain't going anywhere soon. Doing research on HIV-1 is both exciting and challenging; no surprise that no permanent cure / vaccine is not yet available! Trust me, this bug is a tough one! More later, it's midnight here and I have work to finish (Master thesis! Hopefully done this week...