Anybody familiar with Harvard locality!!

[drbiohealth]

Hi guys,

Anybody here familiar with Harvard University or that area?? I plan to go there and want some tips regarding housing.

Cheers!
Raj

[blastfromthepast]

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[rhys]

Originally Posted by drbiohealth

Hi guys,

Anybody here familiar with Harvard University or that area?? I plan to go there and want some tips regarding housing.

Cheers!
Raj

I love the northeast. Are you going crimson for Grad, undergrad, or teaching Raj?

[drbiohealth]

Originally Posted by blastfromthepast

Raj,

We own/manage a couple of apartments for rent in Boston and I know the Boston/Cambridge market well. Email me or PM with any real estate questions. I'd be happy to help you out.

Nice to hear that! PM on the way.

Originally Posted by rhys

I love the northeast. Are you going crimson for Grad, undergrad, or teaching Raj?

What's crimson? Well, I would be working there as a bioresearcher.

[networker]

Crimson is what Harvard is associated with.

[drbiohealth]

Thanks networker! Is that the name of a place or is it an alias of Harvard itself??

[rhys]

Originally Posted by drbiohealth

Thanks networker! Is that the name of a place or is it an alias of Harvard itself??

It just means that Harvard school color is crimson. Like Yale school color is blue, Dartmouth green, Brown is...well...brown etc.

[drbiohealth]

Got it rhys! Thanks.

Originally Posted by rhys

It just means that Harvard school color is crimson. Like Yale school color is blue, Dartmouth green, Brown is...well...brown etc.

[bramiozo]

Originally Posted by drbiohealth

Nice to hear that! PM on the way.



What's crimson? Well, I would be working there as a bioresearcher.

Known anyone called Van Es ?

[drbiohealth]

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Originally Posted by bramiozo

Known anyone called Van Es ?

[bramiozo]

Originally Posted by drbiohealth

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H. Van Es is my uncle, former scientific director of Galapagos (gentech), I thought you may know him his as a bioresearcher .

[drbiohealth]

I am sorry but I have not heard his name. May be he works in a different field than mine. Yes, I have heard Genetech as a company. Being a director of such a reputed company like this would certainly indicate that your uncle is a big guy .. . What's his area of research?

Actually, Biotech is such a vast discipline which includes both insilico and wet lab research. I mainly work in Bioinformatics (computational biology) on a general problem of gene finding. Here is my recent work if it interests you: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals...tract/btl125v1

Cheers!
Raj

Originally Posted by bramiozo

H. Van Es is my uncle, former scientific director of Galapagos (gentech), I thought you may know him his as a bioresearcher .

[bramiozo]

I am not sure what he did exactly but I found this outdated info;

Prior to joining Galapagos Genomics, he was Group Leader and Senior Scientist at IntroGene, now Crucell NV (Nasdaq, CRXL) where he ran research projects on the development of stem cell gene therapies for Gaucher disease using retroviral vectors and phage display technologies. He is a key inventor of the Galapagos functional genomics platform (US patent 6,340,595 others pending, Nat. Biotechnology 20(11): 1154-7) and the adenoviral siRNA technology SilenceSelectTM (WO03020931A1, 2; Genome Research 13: 2325-2332) and started Galapagos with CEO Onno van de Stolpe. He is currently responsible for the research at the Dutch site of Galapagos in Leiden that includes target discovery and validation for osteoarthritis and upper airway hyper-responsiveness, GPCRs and external alliances programs. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Montreal General Hospital, McGill University he worked on drug resistance of malaria, after receiving his PhD in Medicine from the University of Amsterdam in the laboratory of Dr. Ronald Oude Elferink and Professor Guido Tytgat. During his PhD period he worked on UDP-glucuronosyltransferases in particular their deficiency in the Crigler Najjar syndrome a form of hereditary unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia.

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It's not my field but I am doing computational fluid dynamics for my master's here in delft, I have not applied statistics yet in modelling flows but I am sure I am going to need it for turbulence modelling.

In the last paper you use bayesian statististics to create a physical model ?

[drbiohealth]

Seems like he works in wet lab kind of stuffs.

However, I see a lot of interesting things ..

1. Nice to see his work getting published in Nature Biotech and Genome Res - these two are high powered biotech journals.

2. He seems to have worked on asthma. I too have a few papers on this disease from my Bachelor's degree work which was on respiratory fluid mecahnics.

3. You work in CFD - very interesting...do you use finite element stuff to model turbulence...here is a friend who works extensively on turbulence ... http://www.me.uprm.edu/vpandya/

4. I use Bayesian Networks to computationally model/predict gene regulatory regions. BN is an Artificial Intelligence field but essentially in its core its all Bayesian formula (statistics).

Hey, nice to know you bramiozo.. !

Cheers!
Raj

[bramiozo]

I wanted to do AI not so long ago, I don't think it's used very much in cfd.

Doing my thesis on turbulence is an option since it's still such a mystery, as long as it's not something with optimization .. .

It's a relatively new field, so there's definitely enough to explore.

Likewise