About

Mission

Ouroboros is a community weblog for biologists of aging. The mission of the site is to provide timely, thoughtful and scholarly commentary on developments within the field, as they are reported in the scholarly literature and at relevant conferences.

The hope is that others working in the field will participate in the site: by reading the articles, commenting on them, and volunteering to contribute postings on subjects that interest them. If you’d like to get involved, contact the editor at [chrispatil][at][gmail.com].

Authors

Chris Patil (ouroboros) is a postdoctoral fellow, currently working with Judith Campisi in the Life Sciences division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is currently supported by a Larry L. Hillblom Foundation fellowship in the biology of aging. Chris started Ouroboros and is, at the moment, writing about himself in the third person.

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Lev Osherovich (yeastbeast) is a postdoc at UCSF, working in the laboratory of Cynthia Kenyon. He was awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for his project studying insulin signaling in neurodegenerative protein misfolding diseases. Lev also blogs about wine, women, song, science, and life’s other pleasures at William Butler Yeast.

  • Contact: [yeastbeast][at][gmail][dot][com]



Matthew S. O’Connor (okee, a.k.a. Dr. Okie) is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, Bioengineering Department in the laboratory of Dr. Irina Conboy.

  • Contact: [okeewan][at][gmail][dot][com]