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I will have a committee meeting scheduled tomorrow afternoon. Basically I am going to discuss the paper with them. It has been 9 months since my last committee meeting. During the past 9 months, after struggling with finding the specific integrin receptors involved in adhesion dependent CaMKII activation and regulation of cell spreading by CaMKII, we changed direction and put ERK as an end..............

Today is my labmate Paul's thesis defense. Paul and I came to this lab at the same time. He did very good job for the thesis presentation. This is the second Ph.D. student graduation this year for my mentor. Roman had his defense two months ago. So my mentor is pretty excited. We had a party after the defense. Paul is going to Columbia University for his postdoc. I am very happy for him. Then ..............

One month passed by. It is almost the end of April. I got some nice data in the new direction of my research. For the old one, the mystery is still not solved yet. I am still waiting for the new approach being processed in the lab, which is SiRNA technique to silence CaM Kinase II delta-2 gene. I wish I can keep this pace and really get my project move along. I am also planning to do a&n..............

There is always distance between plan and the reality. Like last year, I never thought I wouldn't finish my Ph.D by this May. Now the reality is that I can not make it by May. So I am tired of planning the date for me to finish up the study. More practical way is to figure out how I can get the study done instead of sitting there and planning. Last week I sat down with my mentor and m..............