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Thanks for visiting! My name is Ian M. Mackay, a post-doctoral virus researcher working in the Queensland paedirtci infectious diseases (Qpid) laboratory, at the Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre (SASVRC), Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute and Clinical Medical Virology Centre in Brisbane, South-East Queensland, Australia - check out the SASVRC home page for more on the Centre.

VDU was originally created on my little 486DX2/66 at home - then from a Gateway Pentium II (128Mb RAM and 6.4Gb HDD) on its 17" monitor, then my Dell Pentium III 1000MHz (128Mb RAM, 10Gb HDD) notebook, an Acer Pentium 4 3GHz (1Gb RAM, 120Gb HDD)and now a Dell. The site was only a few pages to begin with, but has grown in a fairly ad hoc fashion. Because of this, the design "theme" had become a little hazy as I kept changing my mind on what looked good. However, I have decided to try a new style (new for 2009). Intentions are important.

I do NOT see the pages on a Macintosh but on the whole they have been designed for Internet Explorer 7.0 and Google Chrome.

I do appreciate any comments about how you receive the pages because then I can try and spruce up the design accordingly.

I'm not a teacher (although all researchers do teach to some degree), a graphic designer (although I like to play), a computer expert (faaaarrrrrr from it) or a literary scholar (hence the occasional typos) but I do have a desire to try and get across some of the information that various people have for years tried to place in my head, or that I have simply picked up in the course of my research.

Most of the information pages do NOT have references - at this stage the site is pieced together from many and varied sources, and re-written in my own "style". References may be added later, but I do not intend these pages to be a one-stop shop for homework or assignments - merely a way of conveying the ideas behind virus-related stuff. If you need references for research purposes then I would hope you are able to track down the information the same way I did.

I hope these pages can bring a little closer the local, and perhaps global scientific community.

Enjoy


Since Jan 28th, 1997
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