Joe works as a research assistant in the Division of Surgery at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.   He has several publication, in cancer research and invertebrate biology.  Medical research is his second career.  His first was marine biology, and he has a Master's degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now University of Louisiana at Lafayette).  He is currently working on his third career as a secondary education biology teacher, and will be certified once he does his student teaching.  Although, he already is being courted by one of the better schools in the area, certified or not!