Welcome to my home page.
About Me
I am a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA. My current research focuses mainly on the Alzheimer's disease related protein called A-beta. I spent my graduate school years at the University of Colorado in Boulder where I studied proteins related to immunity, language, and water regulation. My technical expertise is in the field of x-ray crystallography, to which I apply my knowledge of protein chemistry and scientific computation.
I'm married to a wonderful wife named Jennifer Thacher who is a professor of economics at the University of New Mexico. To entertain myself, I maintain a persistent study of chess tactics and dabble in the unique dominoes game known as Texas 42. I have spent much of my life engaged in athletic pursuits that include soccer, kung fu, and hockey. A lifetime of these high-impact activities has left my joints a little tender so I now direct my athletic energy to rowing on my Concept2 rower.
I hail from Texas, was educated at UT, and am a Longhorn to the bone. Hook'em.
Contact
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External Links
My Résumé | Jenn's Page | Gift Ideas | UCLA-DOE | Flush
News Postings
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- Concept2 versus WaterRower
- A comparison of the Concept2 D and WaterRower rowing machines.
- New Site Goes Live
- 1/27/09: Today my brand new website goes live as my personal home page.
- Site Upgrade
- 1/22/09: I have upgraded the website software on my experimental pages. Soon my official website will don a new look and bountiful content.