Sunday, January 26, 2014. I started writing in a new space. It took a little while to get comfortable and decide what I wanted to change about my blogging, but now I am enjoying myself. I might also periodically add to the blogroll, as there are many interesting and active bloggers around.

Chessler Laboratory UC Irvine Health-School of Medicine. Our laboratory is interested in the cell and molecular biology of the insulin-producing pancreatic islets and in the cellular events that cause islet damage and dysfunction in diabetes.

Saturday, November 30, 2013. Chronic smoking accelerates atrophy of the hippocampus, a key memory structure in the brain. Most people are aware that our memory abilities decline with aging, but a recent paper in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Monday, September 30, 2013.

Monday, August 31, 2015. Scientific Knowledge - At What Cost? Yet another colleague got divorced. Is it our personalities or profession that makes family life crappy? I wish I knew the answer. It unfortunately seems all to common and I am worried I am headed down the same path. I feel like a laughing stock, made fun of for believing I could make a difference in science while making a difference for my kids. For working at home instead of staying in the lab 60 hours a week.

Saturday, August 19, 2017. My newest pet peeve is the amount of emails I receive from predatory conference organizers. Many are not even remotely related to what I do and are fairly easy to delete. To make them look more real, they sometimes include the title of one of my publications in the email. My favorite is when they just copy the name of the first author from the publication, assuming incorrectly that this is the corresponding author. On the predatory journal fr.

Human Neurobiology and Single Cell Genomics. The Brain is a Genetic Mosaic . There are tens of trillions of cells in the human body, so this is maybe not so surprising. To thousands of other neurons,. Keep up the good work! .