pjf.net is operated by Patrick Finerty, Jr., Ph.D., a protein biochemist and photographer living in Seattle. He returned to the USA after 10 years of residence in Toronto, Canada, which gets pretty cold in the winter. He may seem averse to capital letters but this is merely an illusion.

Photo by J. Molinaro
When i’m not working in the laboratory, i’m frequently trying to improve my climbing skills or my photography skills. after all, girls only want guys who have great skills.
Here’s a description of me by friends…
friend #1: patrick is pretty mellow.
friend #2: yeah, except when he’s being really intense.
some info about my doctoral research is here
some info about my post-doc and other research interests is here
my science publications in the PubMed database
my entry in the GenBank database for the protein we discovered while i was in grad school