Hi Lala,

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Hi everyone.

i have just started doing my PhD in food microbiology.will be doing work on bacterial attachment properties.

its really a good thing for me to have found this forum. i can see myself making use of it in the future

btw, can sombody tell me why i cant access my personal information?it keeps coming out as error. i really want to change my display name and add some personal info.

TQ!!!!!

Hello!

I'm so glad I found this community. It's incredibly helpful.

Anyhow, I grew up in very very rural Arkansas, but am now a graduate school refugee working as a research assistant in Washington, DC. My lab studies mucin biochemistry and gene expression as they relate to chronic ear infections.

I hope that I'll be able to make good contributions to the forum with what experience and knowledge I have -- y'all are great.

clickpopclick on Feb 25 2010, 02:09 PM said:

welcome to bioforum, refugee clickpopclick....hope you enjoy your stay here.......you can join the mêlée in the tech forums way up the page or anytime you wanna just hang out- visit the peaceful community subforums way below (that's where the nicest people are) ....btw, what's up with your display name?

casandra on Feb 25 2010, 03:50 PM said:

Thanks!

It's been my handle for quite some time, and it's easier to remember the one name than a billion on all the sites where I have to come up with a user name. I like onomatopoeia.

And, hey, eppendorf tubes make that noise, don't they? It's universally identifiable!

clickpopclick on Feb 26 2010, 03:52 PM said:

but only the cheap ones- those that you'd need all your fingers for popping open the caps...or perhaps those that you left too long in the heating block--oops....

-nice handle btw- does it come with an arrow or a cross? you're getting a kind of test here ....(only for the brave and the shameless...)

Hi I am a college student right now and I love biology specifically ecology. The reason I joined this forum was to get ideas for a study I guess you could say that I want to set up. I want to be a zoo veterinarian. I am from Nebraska and I am a Biology student at Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH. just by looking through the site I realize how useful this will be to my growth and understanding of Biology.

I don't know where else to put this but I want to start building an ecosystem at my house I would eventually like it to be self-supporting. I realize this would be a pretty tough task unless I integrated the natural ecosystem that was already there but I would really like to contain my eco-system so as to not throw off the environment. I am planning a water feature with an aquatic self-supporting ecosystem which shouldn't be too hard. I don't exactly know what a realistic size is but I am guessing that the larger the animals in the sub environment, the more space they would need due to the laws of thermodynamics. My goal here is to set up a food web which I can study and manipulate to see the effects. I know I need producers first of all and then consumers. I would like 4 trophic levels unless that would be too much Ill obviously slowly introduce new levels and let each level stabilize before I move to the next level. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Hey, Adam, welcome.

Adam L. Bishop on Apr 8 2010, 09:20 PM said:

Welcome and good luck, hopefully you're at top of the food web