Student SPHere 2008-09

Well last week was pretty good. I did a presentation on Wednesday in my molecular epidemiology class on this paper: Optical mapping and 454 sequencing of Escherichia coli O157 : H7 isolates linked to the US 2006 spinach-associated outbreak. It’s a pretty interesting paper and a detailed forensic analysis of the strains that caused the 2006 spinach outbreak. I am looking forward to learning more about some of these techniques latter in class.

On Thursday I bussed over to the St. Paul Campus with about 9 other EnHS students for the MEHA winter conference. MEHA is the Minnesota Environmental Health Association. They have a student group, which a fair number of the EnHS students are in and they let some of us come to the conference. We got to set up a table and talk a bit about the school and our research.
(note our cool symmetry)
Mostly it was awesome to talk with other folks in the division. I met people that I had never met before and really enjoyed it. We hear some pretty cool presentation too on food borne disease, mass casualty planning and mold remediation.

I had a nice chat with my advisor recently; it was for my annual review. Things are on track, for me to graduate the winter of 2011. I have started to think more about my committee and what other classes I should be taking.