Recent replies to "PhD in what, where and why?"

Reply from Javier Iglesias-Gonzalez

Javier Iglesias-Gonzalez — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:08:20 -0000

Hi,

I am Javier and I started my PhD in neurodegenerative disorders and the influence of mitochondrion in these diseases. I work specially in Parkinson.

Where… At the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.

I start my PhD because I love the science. For me is a great opportunity a job in that you could discover new things to help other people.

Reply from Sriganesh M S

Sriganesh M S — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:02:35 -0000

Hi, I am currently a PhD candidate at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
My work mainly focuses on algorithmic aspects of data mining – these days, I am into computational biology & bioinformatics.

Reply from Jane Yan

Jane Yan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:14:17 -0000

Hi, everyone. My name is Jane, and I am doing my PhD in Hongkong University of Science and Technology. My research interests are majoring in cell polarity and lipid protein interaction. I decided to pursue a PhD degree because I like science and I want to contribute to the society as a scientist.

Reply from Saif Hasan

Saif Hasan — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:55:06 -0000

Hello,

I am Saif and I started my PhD in Membrane Protein Structural Biology and Bioenergetics a few days back at the Purdue University (USA).
Why am I doing a PhD ? Well, its because this was the only way for me to find a niche in science where I could study Physics and Physical Chemistry and apply them to Biology. And so far, its been a lot of fun !

Reply from Asrar Alam

Asrar Alam — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:41:14 -0000

Hi,
I am Asrar Alam.
I am doing PhD at ICGEB, New Delhi, India.
Working on: Malarial proteases
Why PhD? Interest in science particularly infectious diseases

Reply from sumit deswal

sumit deswal — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:32:11 -0000

Hi
I m sumit deswal, doing phd in immunology at Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg.
Well, though I never read much about immunology before my PhD, but once read some basic concepts, could nt stop myself going into deep in immunology.
I m working on understanding T cell biology and in long term will try to solve some of the basic mystries in immunology e.g memory generation and positive and negative selection.

sounds interesting…..........

is nt it?

Reply from Amit Kumar Singh

Amit Kumar Singh — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:39:26 -0000

Welcome to all new members of the group.. I hope you will find this group useful and enjoy your stay..

Cheers,
Amit

Reply from Asif Khan

Asif Khan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:52:22 -0000

Hi All,

Nice to be part of a network where I get to interact with PhD students from all over the world.

I am a graduate student at the Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. My research interests are in the characterization and analysis of targets of immune responses in viruses, and their applications in the area of computer-aided vaccine research. I have developed a novel bioinformatics methodology for systematic screening and selection of targets of immune responses that are candidates for formulation of vaccines against viruses. I have applied the methodology to dengue virus sequence data to screen and select for candidate immunogens that are effective against broad spectrum of the virus and are applicable to a large proportion of the human population. We are, currently, experimentally validating these candidate immunoges with our collaborators from Johns Hopkins University, USA.

I decided to do PhD because I enjoy doing research work, love the whole research process, long to discover new knowledge, and want to contribute to science.

To know more about my research work, you can read my blog
or access my resources page

Reply from Piyushkumar Mundra

Piyushkumar Mundra — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:04:27 -0000

Hi All,

I am Piyush Mundra, PhD student at School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Well, there are so many biologist and I am surprised to see no one from computational biology or Bioinformatics…This is exactly my research area. I am working on microarray gene expression data analysis, more precisely on gene selection and gene network modeling (all data driven based).

I am doing PhD in this particular field because bioinformatics is the truely interdisciplinary area (i m Chemical Engineer and now working in Comp Engg), and I can really learn a lot and enter in many different research fields starting from core biology to finance :-)... and I believe PhD is the basic degree required to build a career in research… it is a licence to do research :)

I would like to interact u people and broaden my knowledge about different fields…

Reply from Daniel Stjepanovic

Daniel Stjepanovic — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:03:13 -0000

Hi all.

I’m Daniel, and I am (technically) an impostor. Basically, I’m not a real PhD student right now because I haven’t submitted my application form, but I have begun working on my project.

My research area will be cognitive neuroscience, more specifically focusing on imaging genetics. Basically, I want to look at genetic polymorphisms which may be involved in emotion and attention, and try to map these onto brain regions and more specific behaviours. It should be a lot of fun since I have no background at all in genetics (or any of the sciences outside of psychology).

I will be based at the Queensland Brain Institute within the St Lucia campus of the University of Queensland in Brisbane. That is, as soon as they process my forms (the new policy of having no deadlines really defuses any motivation in filling out the dull forms).

The reason I want to do a PhD? I really enjoyed what little research I have been involved so far, and imaging genetics actually interests me.

Reply from Swastik Phulera

Swastik Phulera — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:00:03 -0000

Hi, I am Swastik from delhi university, planning to go for a phd, m in my final year undergrad this year. Lookin forward to complete one/two more years and then going for a phd

Reply from Helen Burston

Helen Burston — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:31:46 -0000

Hi everyone,

I’m Helen from the University of British Columbia, and am doing a PhD in Medical genetics. The goal of my work is to identify protein complexes required for specific intracellular transport pathways,using genome-wide approaches.

I decided to do a PhD, because I worked in lots of different labs as an undergraduate, and found that there was always interesting projects and people around me.

Reply from Helen Burston

Helen Burston — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:31:46 -0000

Hi everyone,

I decided to do a PhD, because I worked in lots of different labs as an undergraduate, and found that there was always interesting projects and people around me.

Reply from Nuruddeen Lewis

Nuruddeen Lewis — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:15:47 -0000

Hi Everyone.

I’m Nuruddeen. I’m a PhD student at Vanderbilt University in the U.S. I’m in the department of Cancer Biology, but my research is more Microbiology/Immunology. I’m doing my PhD because I really want to study science in-depth. Hopefully, God willing, this in-depth study of science will lead to some cures for diseases.

Great to meet you all.

Reply from Laura Ferrero-Miliani

Laura Ferrero-Miliani — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:02:20 -0000

Hi,
My name is Laura. I am from Venezuela, I am on my first year of my PhD at the Department of Gastroenterology at Herlev Hospital in Denmark. I am investigating monocyte gene expression in relation to Crohn’s disease.
I wanted to do a PhD because it was an opportunity to follow up on the research I had done during my Master’s degree and will open the doors into Academia.

Reply from Devendra Bajaj

Devendra Bajaj — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:23:36 -0000

Hi all. I am Devendra, I am a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Univ of Maryland working on Micro and Nano-mechanics of hard tissues.
Why PhD? coz I want to contribute to the existing science and I have always been interested in understanding nature from an engineering perspective.

Reply from Katya Solovyova

Katya Solovyova — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:28:26 -0000

Hello,

I am starting my masters program at the University of Northern Iowa in August. My major is German studies, but I would like to do gender linguistics research and possibly cognitive science.

I come from Russia, and I’ve created a specific group here for Russians worldwide and to discuss local events. It’s http://network.nature.com/group/russia

Nice to meet you all

Reply from Andres Felipe Florez Amaya

Andres Felipe Florez Amaya — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:07:04 -0000

Hi Everybody!

I’m Andres, from Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia. Actually I’m looking for PhD so maybe I can’t answer the questions, but I want to learn from your experiences. My work is basically in Systems Biology but it is clear that I need depth knowledge in this field and in fact it has been my dream to get more understanding of the cell behaviour and therefore the life itself.

I want to ask a favour to all of you. This site How to Apply for a PhD in the US is a wiki document about how to apply. If you can add some relevant information, I would appreciate enormously

Bye

Reply from Eriko Greene

Eriko Greene — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:14:29 -0000

I’m studying on the medical school campus, but just going for my PhD.

Reply from Amit Kumar Singh

Amit Kumar Singh — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:40:08 -0000

Thanks Eriko,
Good to see you.. Are you in Medical School..?