"Yesterday we had snow flurries and today with the wind chill it is below zero!" writes Bob Schmitz '02. "With that in mind, I have decided to begin my postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in San Diego (La Jolla specifically) beginning next August. That's right...one more winter to go. I will work under the guidance of Dr. Joseph Ecker focusing on 'next generation sequencing' platforms and using this technology to investigate protein:DNA interactions on a genome-wide scale in Arabidopsis." As a UBRPer, Bob worked in Dr. Frans Tax's lab, Molecular & Cellular Biology. E-mail: rjschmitz2@wisc.edu

Brian Gregory '00 has received his PhD in biochemistry from Harvard University and is now at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in San Diego. He is working in a lab that combines technology with plant sciences. As a UBRPer, Brian worked with Dr. Ken Feldman, Plant Sciences and Dr. Frans Tax, Molecular & Cellular Biology. E-mail: gregory@salk.edu

" I just returned from backpacking in Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan," writes Melissa Callahan '05. "I am starting a PhD program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire." Melissa was a visiting UBRPer in Dr. Michael Wells's lab, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics. E-mail: callahan.ms@gmail.com