Hello! How are you today? I'm a Microbiologist and I ride horses. I graduated from AUM (Auburn University at Montgomery) in 2002 and I work for the Alabama State Lab. I'm am 27 years old. I am trained in:

 

DFA Rabies testing per CDC protocol and process in specimens (opening animal heads, dissecting brains)

Gonostat

Enterics (which I'm working now)

E.coli 0157:H7 testing per Reference (CDC) protocol

Processing Parasitology

 

I really enjoy Reference Bacteriology and Enteric pathogens.

 

I also ride hunter/Jumper horses and have 2 of my own; a Thoroughbred and a Hanoverian/Thoroughbred. I horse show on the weekends and train my own horses.

 

We also have a Bioterrorism lab here and we work with the FBI when something with Anthrax comes here. It's really cool.

Hello and welcome to the forums. Have fun!

cool. have fun in here.

We also have a Bioterrorism lab here

 

I've always wanted to work in the field of Bioterrorism.

 

ALLAH ACKBAH*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*it's a TRAP

i love dark humour.

Nice to meet you Typhi....your work sounds very interesting. I believe I just read recently that in the US you have had 3 transplant patients being infected with rabies form an organ donor. Any thoughts on that?

Well I never thought that a transplanted organ would have the rabies virus. I knew that the virus could stay alive for some peoriods of time, but since the organs were kept cooled, the virus stayed alive mich longer.

 

I think that when a person dies that their brain should be check for the rabies virus, esp if it's neurological.

Hmm....something else for us to worry about then? Never mind CJD, Hepatitis blah blah blah.