http://ylog.org/sujai Figuring things out... Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:42:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While at UCLA in June 2009 for the International C. elegans meeting (www.celegans.org), I took a morning off to explore the La Brea tar pits. Was amazing to see ice age fossils in the heart of LA (5 bus stops from the UCLA campus). http://picasaweb.google.com/sujaikumar2/2009LA http://ylog.org/sujai/2009-ucla March 2009 - Current School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh I am doing a PhD in the evolutionary genomics of nematodes at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh http://ylog.org/sujai/phd-in-evolutionary-genomics http://rollu120.blogspot.com http://ylog.org/sujai/around-the-world-in-120-days Thesis submitted for the MSc Informatics degree at the University of Edinburgh, 2007. Download PDF Title: Evolutionary dynamics of conserved non-coding DNA elements: Big bang or gradual accretion? Abstract: Background Previous studies have found that DNA elements are highly conserved in species from the same lineage, even though they do not code for proteins or ... http://ylog.org/sujai/evolutionary-dynamics-of-conserved-non-coding-dna-elements-big-bang-or-gradual-accretion The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, 2007. The school awards the Informatics Prize to the student who has obtained the highest overall mark for the MSc Informatics class. http://ylog.org/sujai/university-of-edinburgh-informatics-prize September 2007 - September 2008 School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh I worked as the bio-informatician for the Edinburgh Sequencing Facility of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and the School of Biological Sciences Sequencing Service (SBSSS) of the University of Edinburgh. http://ylog.org/sujai/bioinformatician Spent a few days in Krakow with Linda who was on her way back from Italy, and then went tramping around on my own for almost a week in Warsaw, Gdansk, and Malbork. http://ylog.org/sujai/2007-poland Pictures from when my mom visited Scotland in Apri. Using Picasaweb (and a Panasonic Lumix FZ7) for the first time. http://ylog.org/sujai/2007-ammas-visit-to-scotland Yet again, Linda's travelogue says it better than anything I could have come up with: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/lmsims/www/Scotland2006/ http://ylog.org/sujai/2006-lindas-visit-to-scotland The JAGORI Safe Delhi Campaign site was implented as a Wordpress CMS so that it would be easy to manage with weekly content updates. Although it is a separate website from JAGORI's main site, it includes design elements from the main site (such as the top navigation bar) to maintain ... http://ylog.org/sujai/website-jagori-safe-delhi-campaign