Genesis

Always wanted to do this but never ever got around to do it. The idea really started from all the Pharmacogenetics Lab research activities and my involvement with the LSM4212 Module on "Pharmacogenetics and Drug Response Variability".

After lots of mistakes I think I finally mastered the basic tools of blogging...well, at least enough, I think, to get started. So here goes. Here's hoping we can get some sort of discussions going on all those thoughts and ideas floating around issues related to pharmacogenetics and variability in drug response.

Coincidentally, The Scientist just published a report on a blogging high school biology teacher, and how she transformed the teaching of biology. I reproduce an excerpt here, but you can go here for the real stuff (just need to register).

"High school biology teacher Stacy Baker was sick of waiting by the photocopier to make handouts for her students. So in 2006, she launched a website, missbakersbiologyclass.com, to serve as central repository for class notes, pictures, and extra credit assignments.

At first, the site was simply an online extension of her classroom, and information flowed strictly one-way: teacher to pupils. But Baker wanted the site to be more than that; she wanted to engage her students in the full interactive potential of the Internet. So she transformed the site into a participatory blog, and let her students take it over."

Cool.