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@BoredAF:
Yeah this is where PM comes in, to identify potential resistances ahead of administering the adjuvant therapy. This way you immediately discard therapies that are known to be resistant to a particular subset of cancer cells with that particular (epi)mutations. As far as growth after treatment, it's case dependent. The other problem is toxicity, there is only so much the body can handle in terms of cancer drugs, hence you can't just keep pumping people with new drugs if one fails.

podcast pls

[quote=Plenair]Ok, next one, do it without your shirt.

Am I the only one that thinks Dimo looks like Vin Diesel?[/quote]

Vin @Dimo

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@BoredAF:

I could not answer the first question, I honestly don't know how funding is distributed from non-government agencies. As for how far away, well I think we are long way from completely eradicating cancer, this is because of the heterogeneity withing cancer, not only between cancers, and between individuals but withing an individual. If you look at a cancerous mass withing an individual there would be hundreds of thousands of cancerous cells, each slightly different from each other because each time the replicate they acquire more (epi)mutations. Any one of these cancerous cells can be resistant to any given drug on the market, so it's very common for a particular therapy to kill off most of the tumour only to have it grow back because a small portion of cells were resistant to the drug. This is our biggest challenge, figuring out hot to deal with heterogeneity within cancer.

[quote=BoredAF]@dimo: I'm not sure if I remember this correctly or not but isn't PM regarding cancer much more expensive than other conventional methods for not necc a better outcome?[/quote]
Not really, the whole idea behind it is to do the opposite, inexpensive tests to tell you about a) likelihood of relapse b) likelihood of progression and c) response to various adjuvant therapies.

[quote=BoredAF]Congrats, knew you had it. So, will you get a perm position out of this?[/quote]

Not sure yet, have a 2nd lecture in a months time on Towards personalized medicine in cancer", so I guess I will find out after that.

[quote=BoredAF]Let us know how it went.[/quote]

Went really well, even had the dean of the faculty come down to watch who congratulated me on "doing such a fine job at such a young age"
Anyway sneaky picture from the lecture http://i.imgur.com/0n65GTq.png

Woohoo congrats

Prepare for "Can I go to the bathroom?"

[quote=acuppa]Coffee + Xanax is how I got through every presentation in college. How do you soothe your jangled nerves?[/quote]
Usually a beer or two. Seriously.

[quote=BoredAF]
Jokes aside, do what you do. You're obviously amazing at your job or you wouldn't of been asked to speak.[/quote]
Thanks mate.

Coffee + Xanax is how I got through every presentation in college. How do you soothe your jangled nerves?

[quote=cb000]Passing on your knowledge now that you have mastered your subject, I find that admirable. I'll be starting my PhD program soon and hope to one day be in your position as well.[/quote]
The best of luck to your future endeavors mate. It's far from an easy journey but the reward at the end is well worth the time spent.

[quote=dopeazn]any chance you'll tell us which university? is it pretty prestigious?[/quote]
Nope But it's one of the top universities in Australia.

Say that you're lv 113 and so you're legit so they better take notes.
Then proceed.

Passing on your knowledge now that you have mastered your subject, I find that admirable. I'll be starting my PhD program soon and hope to one day be in your position as well.

any chance you'll tell us which university? is it pretty prestigious?

make sure to read directly off your slides and go off on 20 minute tangents not related to what you're teaching

[quote=Colour]"hi, i'm dimo."
that's all you gotta do, babe. [/quote]

Heh, almost had forgotten about that, that seemed like a lifetime ago.

"hi, i'm dimo."
that's all you gotta do, babe.

[quote=ZombieOverlord]If there's anything I know about you from all these years on basil it's that you got the drive in you to help and teach others, which passion I might add.
So, knock em dead, dimo![/quote]

Cheers mate, much appreciated.

If there's anything I know about you from all these years on basil it's that you got the drive in you to help and teach others, which passion I might add.
So, knock em dead, dimo!

[quote=DestroyUsAll]Wait you're a college professor?[/quote]

I am on a trial I guess, giving two lectures as part of a Advanced Molecular Biology course, one on Advanced Methods in Structural Biology and one one Personalized Medicine in Cancer. If I do well I will be given a permanent invited speaker position.

Wait you're a college professor?

[quote=NoobCake]Please be one of those cool professors.[/quote]

I will try to be, I guess being much closer to their age than almost all other lecturers helps.

Please be one of those cool professors.

Thanking you all for your kind words.

[quote=NonSonoFronz]
How many students are going to be in your lecture?[/quote]

I think it's just over 100.

Just remember that they're more afraid of you than you are of them.

[url=http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/aYbAmb2_460sa.gif]Don't choke[/url]
JK, you'll do fine.

Just remember they're students and to treat the conversation as such.
You'll do great.

How many students are going to be in your lecture?

Good luck man. I'll have a shot in you honor after I get don't with my strep throat essay for my allied health class.

Good luck buddy.

gjdm OP
Good luck

don't pee in your pants.