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Seasonal Greetings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am introducing myself as Prof. Somebody, Head ,Division of Bioinformatics, A. University, A., TN, India. I am going to organize an International Symposium on Bioinformatics and systems Biology on 16-17 Feb 2011. I noted your valuable papers in reputed journals and contribution to Bioinformatics. Our university is located 200kms away from Chennai international Airport. which is one of the historical place has a famous Natraj temple ie 2000 years old. Chidambaram town is surrounded by many historical monuments of Chola king. I will provide a conveyance from airport and sight seeing and good hospitality .I will provide to you a separate air conditioned car for the whole programme and sight seeing. I invite you on behalf of organizing committee to deliver a special lecture on any one day of your convenience. I request you to permit us to include your name in the expert committee of the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Expecting your favourable reply Replies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) I ain’t no “Dr.” I work for a living. I love these: Dear Dr. Insert Name Here Seasonal Greetings, I am introducing myself as Prof. Somebody, Head ,Division of Bioinformatics, A. University, A., TN, India. I am going to organize an International Symposium on Bioinformatics and systems Biology on 16-17 Feb 2011. I noted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Dear Dr. Insert Name Here<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
with kind regards
sincerely yours<\/p>\n\n\n\nSomebody<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) Papers? Seriously? I’ve put one-page non-reviewed crap in a trade magazine – perhaps 12 times in the past 6 years. My last peer reviewed “publication” was a courtesy authorship in 2004. The last paper I actually wrote happened in 1999 or so – and was about as far from bioinformatics as it’s possible to get.
c) 200km away from Chennai? Um, suddenly I’m kinda interested. Can I bring my wife? For valentine’s day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"