Dr. Liz

The big news of this past week is that Elizabeth successfully defended her thesis and is now DOCTOR LIZ!!! A cadre of family members - David, Joan, Don, Azeem, myself - attended her seminar, which was on NMR characterization of proteins that are glutamate receptors, looking at how ligands that bind affect the shape and function of the receptor. (I maybe sort of got that right!! Oh, hell - here is a paper on it and you can figure it out for yourselves! ) Anyway, we are very very proud of Elizabeth, and glad that her six long years have come to such a wonderful conclusion. The photo above is from a poster advertising her seminar - it shows our Elizabeth, being touched by the noodly appendage of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, wrapped in the British flag (a symbol of her next adventure, which will be a post-doc at Kings College, London.) Congratulations, Liz!