> From: Mark Reimers <http://www.yahoo.ca/~mark1reimers> > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 02:04:15 +0000 (UTC) > > Hi Robert,Nice to hear from you. > > We've been three years at Michigan State. This spring I moved over to > biomedical engineering, although that means more > grant-writing. My friend Brian is dreading having to go through the grant-writing process again. (He's a, now retired, professor at UC , but still working on teaching projects.) >  I've been teaching courses on i) computational > brain models, ii) neural data analysis, iii) genes, the brain and > behavior. I've hired a second post-doc, and we are making progress on > understanding the relation of brain dynamics to behavior. Ah. When will Ray Kurzweil be able to upload his brain to the cloud? > I'm giving a > lot of talks to local interest groups. In August I led a series of > four sessions on memory, brain and music. Music is weird. It's no wonder that Oliver Sacks was obsessed with it. > About Macular degeneration: this is one of the few diseases where > genetics really makes a difference. Have you done 23andme? No. Unless there is a big change in the laws so that there are more privacy protections, it's unlikely that I'll do that any time soon. > Some > treatments based on genetics are beginning to be useful. Well, my ophthalmologist says that only a breakthrough in stem cells will help with my right eye. > Say Hi to Noelle. Sure. > Mark Reimers humanist, scientist, and mathematician