Tim Burton - About me
Hello there! My name is Tim Burton ( the one and only ), and I'm the program manager for the RaHP VEC training and evaluation center. I'll be participating in these blog posts from time to time through the summer, mostly about happenings at the center and describing my work mostly related to data management with our regional partners. For now, though, a bit about me. I grew up here in Fort Collins, Colorado before attending Colorado State University, where I studied for a B.S. in Microbiology. After graduating, I spent three months thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. My intention was to finish it (and still is, one day...), but while I was somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains I was offered a position as a post-bac researcher at the National Institutes of Health. There, I had the opportunity to culture malaria parasites and infect mosquitoes while working with some great scientists and people. Following two years at the NIH, I enrolled in the PhD program at the University of ...