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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFF00" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id103.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Baby Alek"><U>Baby Alek</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="This Modern World"><U>This Modern World</U></A></div> <div> <B>About Us</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Frank Lloyd Wright"><U>Frank Lloyd Wright</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hidden Mickeys"><U>Hidden Mickeys</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=94 BGCOLOR="#FF9900" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="38381560.jpg" border=0 width="129" height="86" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="5"></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>The Reads in Maryland</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC33" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>   |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Reads in Maryland"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> back to  <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Interests"><U><B>Our Interests</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=386 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> About Us</div> <div> <B>Alekzander Anton</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3db83af0.jpg" border=0 width="131" height="175" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" >Baby Stats: born 4/13/2004 at 6:53 AM, 6 lbs. 8 oz., 20.5 inches.</FONT></div> <div> Chinese zodiac sign: Wood Monkey</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="190" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 253 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2e1b4f00.jpg" border=0 width="180" height="240" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="184"><div> Erik in yukata at Hosidekan ryokan in Ise</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>Erik Karl</B></div> <bR> <div> I was born on March 1 in Coventry, RI. I am a fire goat by the Chinese Zodiac.</div> <bR> <div> I was a post-doc (visiting professor on the visa) working at Aichi Gakuin School of Dentistry in Nagoya, Japan. My research interest is bacterial genetics. I was studying anaerobic bacteria, P. gingavalis in Dr. Yoshimura's lab.</div> <bR> <div> I'm now working at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesday, MD studying bacterial transcription.</div> <bR> <div> Erik's <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eriks pictures"><U>pictures of raccoon and phage-shaped architecture</U></A>.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="187" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 137 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0fdaf830.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="131" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="181"><div> Erik giving a seminar at Aichi Gakuin</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="236" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 234 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="366dce40.jpg" border=0 width="220" height="228" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Dressed as guh-guh (Chinese princess)</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> Susan</div> <bR> <div> I was born on March 24 in Taipei, Taiwan. I'm a fire dragon (that'll tell you how old I am). I moved to Richardson, TX (a suburb of Dallas) when I was 8 years old. I graduated from UT Austin and Caltech. I have degrees in Microbiology and Biology. Actually, I met Erik in a microbiology lab. Erik and I were married on Oct. 5th, 2002. We packed up and moved to Nagoya, Japan the day after we returned from our honeymoon. In Japan, I was a housewife and hobby website creator. I also helped Kiyomi and Tomoko, two Japanese university students, practice their English twice a week. </div> <bR> <div> I'm now working at the FDA as a research fellow. I've created and maintain several databases for tracking different aspects of biological drug manufacturing. </div> <bR> <div> Hobbies: creating websites, reading, playing the violin</div> <bR> <div> Check out my <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Book Reviews"><U>book reviews</U></A> on books I read while in Japan.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>