Howard,
Let me be the 1st to congratulate you on your accomplishment. You should be proud of what you did! Go out and celebrate!!
Hi all
Howard successfully passed his Ph.D. thesis examination on 15 April 2003 and will be graduating from the University of Toronto Dept. of Biochemistry this June.
Please join me in plastering this thread with your congratulations to Howard, and to all of you my personal thanks for your help and efforts on Distributed Folding which has significantly contributed to Howard's Ph.D. Thesis.
The esteemed group of scientists that participated in Howard's Thesis defence is listed here with links to their research interests.
It was an impressive showing by Howard given this group of "interrogators".
Hue Sun Chan, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, U. of Toronto
http://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/chan/bch.html
Regis Pomes, Ph.D. Hospital for Sick Children, Research Institute
and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, U. of Toronto
http://www.sickkids.on.ca/research/c...iles/pomes.asp
Julie Foreman-Kay,Ph.D. Hospital for Sick Children, Research Institute and Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, U. of Toronto
http://www.sickkids.on.ca/research/c...forman-kay.asp
Emil Pai, Professor, Ph.D. Dept of Biochemistry, U. of Toronto
http://echo.med.utoronto.ca/
G. Andrew Wolley, Ph.D. Dept. of Chemistry, U. of Toronto
http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/people/a.../woolleya.html
C.I. Bayly, Ph.D. Merck Frosst, Montreal Canada (External Examiner)
http://www.merckfrosst.ca
This group included structural biology experimentalists, theoretical protein folding specialists, small and large molecule computational simulation and drug docking specialists. Their consensus was that Howard's thesis was excellent exciting and that they all looked forward to seeing our work in future publications. I would also say that there was quite a bit of excitement when Howard showed off the new protein folding movies generated by the beta test DF system.
I am, personally very proud of Howard. Howard has accepted my offer for a full-time position as Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Software developer in the Blueprint Initiative and he will continue sheperding Distributed Folding for the next few months as we roll in some additional staff to do new experiments using the beta that Howard has crafted, of course with your help. In the near future Howard will be shifting more of his efforts and talents to help us transfer elements DF technology into the public BIND database initiative (www.bind.ca).
Christopher Hogue, Ph.D
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital and
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Howard,
Let me be the 1st to congratulate you on your accomplishment. You should be proud of what you did! Go out and celebrate!!
CONGRATZ
Congratulations, Doctor!
Team Anandtech DF!
Well Done, Doctor Howard!
Got his experience right here, defending himself from us!!
HOME: A physical construct for keeping rain off your computers.
Congrats Howard!!!
That must feel great to finish your PhD. I can't wait to finish my Masters...
Jeff.
Yeah, congratulations!
Congratulations Dr. Feldman
that's great news
soon you'll use every post you make
Is there a chance that your thesis will be posted online so we all can read why and with what knowledge you've passed the thesis examination?
Member of the Los Alcoholicos
Outstanding...now provide some free beer, a party to drink at, and a plane ticket to get there & I am on my way
wt!
BIG congratulations on all the work, and passing the big BBQ grill defense test.
not that we ever had any doubt....
You done good, dude!
All the very best Howard.
You deserve it for the work you have done.
Agent Smith was right!: "I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell! If there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."
Congratulations Howard. Do we need to now call you Doc?
G
P.S. I guess this will delay Beta 7.
Howard - may you enjoy your bachelor's night style entertainment to celebrate this achievement. Even if it is 2 hours of Bugs Bunny singing and dancing to "What's Up Doc".
Congratulations. (chants encouraging words like "the native structure can be found, if we just fiddle a bit more..")
So does this mean you are gonna be leaving us to go get a real job now??
Excellant!
Congratulations Howard! All the hard work finally paid off. Now take some time off and enjoy it
Proud member of the Dutch Power Cows
Congrats Dr. Fist!
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies..
been a pleasure being associated with you guys..
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and I guess it just got better...!! with a REAL JOB offer !!
paying real dinero !! WO!!
got to be a tremendous sense of accomplishment........
[have a feeling you wont forget where you've been ] :
" All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."-
Edmund Burke
" Crunch Away! But, play nice .."
--RagingSteveK's mom
Thanks all.
I hope to post my thesis online once I obtain the required permissions. While I may become more arms-length to the project over the next few months, I will always be watching you
It's been a blast so far though, thanks to all of you for making this such an enjoyable experience for me.
Howard Feldman
Congratulation Howard!
Now,
Hope you don't disappear completely from this project as I (and I'm certain, many others) have been very satisfied with how this project have been managed!
hmmm, not sure I would want to visit a DR. called Dr. Fist
very nice
i didn't know DF had anything to do with hydrogen though
Use the right tool for the right job!
Congratulations Howard!!!
Congratulations Dr. Howard !!!!
Congrats Howard,
I'm sure that's a load off your sholders. I finished my Ph.D. in august and after years of hard labo...errr research it felt great to jump though that last hoop.
Some guys will do anything to be able to use the line "Trust me, I'm a doctor!"
Congrats Howard!!
/whiny mode on
Please don't leave us Howard!
/chocolate arrived...whining over
I hear it gets you preferred/VIP service in some places too - can anyone verify? If not, I'll let ya know in a few months...Originally posted by bubbadog
Some guys will do anything to be able to use the line "Trust me, I'm a doctor!"
Howard Feldman
If you ever have any problems with Bell it will help you out. They tend to give immediate service to Doctors of your line gets cut, isn't working, etc...Originally posted by Brian the Fist
I hear it gets you preferred/VIP service in some places too - can anyone verify? If not, I'll let ya know in a few months...
Jeff.
CONGRATS!!!
Congratulations Howard!!
Congratulations!!
Mark