Source: Daniel 1xbet online casino , 785-532-1208, dfung@k-state.edu
http://www.k-state.edu/media/mediaguide/bios/fungbio.html
Photos available. Contact media@k-state.edu or 785-532-6415.
News release prepared by: Katie Mayes, 785-532-6415, kmayes@k-state.edu
Thursday, July 16, 2009
K-STATE RESEARCHER SAYS MINIATURIZED LIKENESS OF HIMSELF IS A CONVERSATION STARTER
MANHATTAN -- When Kansas State University's Daniel 1xbet online casino , professor of animal sciences and industry and of food science, helps organize a seminar or make a conference presentation, he usually receives a small token of appreciation: a lapel pin, a personalized pen or other goodies.
But when he was presented with an 18-inch-tall likeness of himself at the 2007 Metodos Rapidos y Automatizacion en Microbiologia Alimentaria conference in Barcelona, Spain, he was caught a little bit off guard.
&1xbet online casino ;I was completely, totally floored -- and I'm a pretty composed human being,&1xbet online casino ; Fung said.
The likeness is a spectacle-wearing statue donning a Hawaiian-style shirt under a lab coat. In one hand is a miniaturized version of a 1xbet online casino -Yu Tube -- one of 1xbet online casino 's inventions -- and peeking out from a pocket is a salmonella appearing to be making a break for it.
The only words Fung remembers being able to muster: &1xbet online casino ;This looks like me!&1xbet online casino ;
The statue was given to him by Joseph Yuste, who studied under 1xbet online casino as a postdoctoral researcher at K-State. Yuste organizes and runs the workshop in Barcelona, which is based on 1xbet online casino 's annual Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology Workshop at K-State. 1xbet online casino 's workshop has catered to more than 4,000 scientists from across the world over the last 29 years. The statuette also came with a smaller version of that year's conference program, in which people wrote messages to 1xbet online casino thanking him for his contributions.
When &1xbet online casino ;mini-Fung&1xbet online casino ; was given, Yuste's workshop was in its fifth year and he wanted to do something special for the man who had done so much to guide him professionally and help get the Barcelona workshop going.
Yuste commissioned an artist in Barcelona to create the statuette.
&1xbet online casino ;The guy never saw me,&1xbet online casino ; Fung said. &1xbet online casino ;He just worked off pictures.&1xbet online casino ;
When asked whether it was ironic that the man who had miniaturized so many of the processes used to rapidly detect dangerous pathogens in food and water had now, himself, suffered the same fate, 1xbet online casino that he was touched by the sentiment.
&1xbet online casino ;Mini-Fung&1xbet online casino ; sits under a glass dome in Fung's office. It is often a conversation starter and is educational, too.
Fung said that the reactions from people entering his Call Hall office vary from &1xbet online casino ;What is that?&1xbet online casino ; to &1xbet online casino ;Wow, that's cute!&1xbet online casino ; He then uses it to talk about how important the ability to rapidly detect food-borne pathogens is for protecting public health.
&1xbet online casino ;It's cute and it's also scientific because my invention is there. Also, there is a salmonella there that tells people that they can be contaminated,&1xbet online casino ; Fung said. &1xbet online casino ;It shows that this old professor is very happy giving lectures in very colorful dress, which I've done and do still.&1xbet online casino ;
1xbet online casino the statue pretty much sums up who he is.
&1xbet online casino ;That's my life, all right there,&1xbet online casino ; he said.
