If your Chemistry-trained grad student is past 7 years, you may want to ask some questions

From the unfortunate Dunlap laboratory at Dartmouth College.

Randy Lambreghts received his B.S. in Chemistry and M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Ghent, Belgium. His current research involves identifying novel components of the Neurospora circadian clock using classical genetic mapping as well as next-generation sequencing techniques. He enjoys travelling and plans to see all of South America after graduation.

News of our young hero [PubMed] from The Dartmouth:

A Dartmouth graduate student was arrested for the attempted manufacture of methamphetamine/amphetamine on Sunday, the Union Leader reported.

Randy Lambreghts, 28, whose graduate date is not listed in the Dartmouth Network Directory, allegedly ran a methamphetamine lab from his 3 School St. apartment, according to the Union Leader.

and from here:

After the DEA got a search warrant, a field team searched the pad, collected evidence suspected of being related to making meth, and sent it to a lab; it is still being analyzed, Giaccone said.

Lambreghts was charged Tuesday with one count of attempted manufacture of methamphetamine/amphetamine, Giaccone said. He was being held on $20,000 bail.

Lambreghts lives with two other people, but they are not expected to be charged, Giaccone added.

Lambreghts, who had been studying at the Ivy League school for about seven years, received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s in biochemistry from the University of Ghent, in Belgium, according to a Dartmouth website.

Ugh.

UPDATE: The title has been modified to remove the inaccurate impression that Lambreghts was enrolled in a Chemistry graduate program.

Any racial disparity in NIH Centers and Program Projects?

The BigMechanisms are rare compared with R01 awards but they sure are a big deal to those Investigators who are supported by them. In some walks of academic research, your BSD-ness is practically defined by having one.

The NIH doesn’t know if the diversity problem extends to the larger mechanisms.

I will be eagerly awaiting the followup data.