Of course you know that the main purpose of this trip is for Rowan's sabbatical work to continue. By no means has this trip been all play for either of us (it's just WAY more fun to blog about the fun things we do and not our work :o) She has been doing a weekly seminar on statistics at the Eye Institute, continuing her work on the seven papers she is working on for publication, working via the Internet on her Associate Dean for Research duties at the IU Optometry school, conducting endless skype meetings with her lab and other colleagues around the world, exploring international grant opportunities with Shrikant for future collaborations between IU and the LV Prasad Eye Institute and starting to set up equipment in Shrikant's lab. The crate that was shipped from Indiana just arrived yesterday, so upon our return from Kerala next week, the next phase of testing will begin.
Shrikant with the men who helped unload the equipment yesterday.
Besides eating and blogging, Jenni has been monitoring the functions of her lab back at IU over the internet aswell. She attends lab meetings on Thursdays via skype to talk about study protocols and works on trying to keep the lab's grant account status healthy. It looks like there will be a few new human subject research projects ready to go by the time we get back. Good news in this financially strained environment.
Blah, blah, blah..............I know, this is really boring! :o)
More fun stuff coming soon.
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