A poster is not a smaller paper

Notes on how research changes when it moves from a conference conversation to a durable scientific record.

Cryopreservation is a question about recovery

Notes from boar semen preservation on stress, antioxidant protection, and what it means for reproductive biotechnology to survive handling.

Extended culture is a test of translation

Notes from porcine blastocyst culture on viability, defined systems, and the patience required before a model can travel.

Physiology before protocol

Notes from porcine fluid-therapy research on tailoring care without losing sight of the animal.

Building veterinary learning tools around uncertainty

Notes on turning exam preparation, public communication, and professional memory into usable infrastructure.

Why I am carrying veterinary medicine into medical school

A note on veterinary training, postdoctoral research, and the clinical path ahead in 2028.

What porcine oocytes teach about translation

Field notes from reproductive biotechnology, where small procedural details decide whether an idea can travel.

Epigenetic editing is a question about control

Notes from a CRISPR/dCas9-TET1 project in porcine cumulus-oocyte complexes.

Reading large-animal models with clinical questions in mind

A reading-log frame for papers on genome-edited animals, reproduction, and translational medicine.

How to design an experiment

A six-step method for finding your way on a map that does not yet exist, from the research question to the moment you pitch the design to your advisor.

The advisor relationship

On advisor archetypes, honest reporting, and the slow work of becoming a research partner rather than a subordinate.

What I wish I'd known before graduate school

A veterinarian's reading of a book about graduate life, and the small disciplines that turn a student into an independent researcher.

Contacting a research advisor

A practical walk through the parts nobody teaches: why to go, how to reach a prospective advisor, and what the first meetings and applications actually ask of you.

Choosing a graduate program

A decision framework for weighing a school's name against an advisor's attention, and why the answer differs for clinical and research tracks.

Meeting your future self

A reading log on Benjamin Hardy's Be Your Future Self Now, and what it asked me to do with the next five years.

Why I went straight to graduate school

On military service, choosing theriogenology as a bridge between clinic and bench, and a longer dream that made the decision feel inevitable.

Study as exploration

A reading log on Choi Jae-cheon's book on study, and how his defense of the wandering path made sense of my own.

How I became a veterinarian

The finale of my vet-school series, on passing the licensing exam, choosing theriogenology, and where the writing goes next.

Clinical paths in veterinary medicine

A student-era map of the small-animal, farm, poultry, equine, exotic, and international tracks a veterinary graduate can take, with the economics and training behind each.

Non-clinical paths in veterinary medicine

A student-era survey of the government, industry, startup, and research careers that a veterinary license opens outside the clinic.