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Searching for the Salmon
and I shall go in the Lady's name / all to fetch thee home again
Created on 2007-02-16 16:12:16 (#12299399), last updated 2009-07-01
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Basic Info| Name: | Aine |
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| Birthdate: | 1972-12-13 |
BioI'm a veterinary pathology resident and PhD student (DVM class of 2006), artist and pagan. The trick is to find a way to integrate science and faerie, without losing the wonder and beauty of either one. I want to know how things work- what the cells are doing in health and disease, and why. By 'why', I mean the adaptive, evolutionary history as well as the proximal signals and responses. I completed a MS in arachnology before vet school (thesis on the evolution and adhesive mechanism of cribellate spider capture thread). Invertebrates (and for some reason, especially spiders) fascinate me; their strategies for dealing with living are so different from ours, which makes them fantastic teachers of evolution- they are our outgroup, and we are theirs. Before that, I was an art student (as well as biology), and I still throw on the wheel when I can get studio space. I have plans, so far unfulfilled, to do some paintings based on photomicrographs and inspired by Georgia O'Keefe's flowers (nobody really *looks* at a cell...) but we'll see.
These things sustain me: running water, dancing flames, true lovers, unspoiled places, live growing things, new discoveries, faithful beasts, wild animals, uncovering secrets, finding answers, making things, good friends, winds, starlight, sunlight and moonlight.
These things sustain me: running water, dancing flames, true lovers, unspoiled places, live growing things, new discoveries, faithful beasts, wild animals, uncovering secrets, finding answers, making things, good friends, winds, starlight, sunlight and moonlight.
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anatomy, animal behavior, animal totems, animation, aquatic medicine, arachnology, art and science, bdsm, bearded dragons, beer, biology, biotechnology, body modification, breast cancer, brewing, caffeine, carrion birds, cartoons, cell signalling, celtic, changeling, charles de lint, concepts of nature, corvids, crows, dark chocolate, debate, doctor who, dogs, domestic animals, dr. who, ecology, elementals, escher, evolution, evolutionary biology, faerie, falconry, fencing, fire, firefly, foreign animal disease, gardening, geeks, gender, genderqueer, genetics, georgia o'keefe, girl genius, good omens, hayao miyazaki, herd health, hiking, homebrew, kink, leather, magick, mead, medicine, microbrews, mythology, natural history, necropsy, neil gaiman, nutrition, otters, pagan, parasitology, pathology, peircings, poly, polyamory, pottery, public health, queer, rats, ritual, rivers, sapiosexuality, science, science fiction, science fiction & fantasy, scuba, sea snakes, sex positive, spicy food, spiders, spiderwebs, steampunk, streams, studio ghibli, sushi, swimming, tank girl, tattoos, trans, transgender, veterinary medicine, veterinary pathology, water, witchcraft, zoology
Schools:
Scattergood Friends School - West Branch, IA (1988 - 1990)Antioch College - Yellow Springs, OH (1990 - 1992)
Radford University - Radford, VA (1996 - 2000)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Blacksburg, VA (2000 - 2002)
Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine - Blacksburg, VA (2002 - 2006)
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