Well, I’m back in Snowmass Colorado at Rocky08 - the satellite meeting of the ISMB.  I’m speaking in about 2 hours.Some really good talks so far.  Jack Horner gave a talk yesterday where he did some analysis of the VIOXX data.  VIOXX was withdrawn from the market in 2004 amid concerns that it was causing […]

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Well, it turns out that a few molecular evolutionists come along to read this blog from time to time, so it’s not entirely inappropriate to write a short review of SMBE 2008.
Overall, the venue (Barcelona) was great as was the conference venue.  The company that were organising the meeting were really professional and I didn’t […]

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So, I’m back from Colombia, where indeed, I did have a very good time. The meeting went very well and I think there will be a few productive collaborations as a result.
I didn’t do too much of the tourist thing - not really that easy for such a short trip, though I did get […]

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I have a facebook account. Nothing too unusual there, there are more people on Facebook than live in France.
However, last week, I received a post from somebody and I replied to it. The funny thing was that every single person on my list of Friends received the message, resulting in a lot of […]

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Four things have happened or are happening this week in my scientific life.
The Science Foundation Ireland Science Summit is on at City West Hotel and I have been at that, listening to the great and the good of Irish science talking about what they do.
The same Science Foundation Ireland turned down my pre-proposal for funding.
Along […]

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Aspen is now less than three weeks away. Going to present some work on how we might detect pandemic strains of influenza virus. Great conference and some time to slide down them thar slopes.
This photo is what I will look like.
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The Euro climbed to new highs today against the dollar ($1.43 for a Euro). Now I know that in the global sense, this is not so good. Particularly if you are in the Irish hospitality industry or if you are trying to export goods to the US - makes them expensive, you see.
However, […]

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The website has been updated….
Rocky07 is on in December and I’m-a-going.

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Not realising fully what was happening with Tony Griffin, the Clare hurler, I was a little surprised yesterday evening to go to the conference dinner here in Halifax, Nova Scotia to see a poster about the Tony Griffin Foundation on the wall in the Student’s Union. Tony is a student here and his father […]

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Today I am in Nova Scotia in Canada. On Sunday the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution is starting and I am doing a little dog-and-pony show during the meeting. I am speaking on the subject of what happens when you try to make a “Tree of Life” from complete […]

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