Here are the two and four-legged creatures who fuel my life. My wife, Crys Fagan, is a post-doctoral fellow in the Ferré-D'Amaré lab at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She did her doctoral work in the Dunham Lab, Department of Biochemistry at Emory University. She works on RNA. I understand about 50% of the biochemistry in her work presentations. We attribute this high number to Crys' use of food analogies and her well-intentioned attempts to use political analogies to explain her work. I find the latter especially amusing.

We have two rescued dogs, Cody and Galen, who work hard to keep us on our toes. This little family lives for adventures, the food, hiking and travel kind. Most of the rest of my family lives in India. This ensures that I visit often - both to see them and to keep a finger on the pulse of Indian politics.

This is us on a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest.

This is one of my favorite pictures from my brother's wedding in India in December 2011. The newly-weds being showered with flowers by family members. My grandparents are behind them on the left and my parents on the right (in the pink sari and grey suit and turban).

                                          

Galen is a fierce advocate for the rights of dogs to sleep on human beds. She has won this right in full measure. Now she devotes her time to ensuring other dogs get to cramp their humans on a nightly basis too.

Cody loves to chase rubber balls. She will only fetch one and bring it to you if you have one for her in return. She is very committed to fair trade.