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Grad School Pays in Other Ways

February 14, 2014
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When I sat down to write this essay I intended to describe how bad graduate student stipends are, how overworked…

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Alternatives to the Traditional Lab Notebook

February 7, 2014
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It used to make sense to paste data into a lab notebook. Western blots were exposed on film, DNA gel…

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MAC – E.E. Just Lectureship 2013

February 4, 2014

Biographical Sketch – J. Victor Garcia-Martinez, 2013 Garcia-Martinez is a professor of medicine, microbiology, and immunology in the Center for…

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Show Me the Money—Funding Opportunities for International Graduate Students and Postdocs

January 31, 2014
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  Photo by Nick AresThe current funding environment is proving to be a very difficult hurdle for many. Although the…

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Life as a Postdoc at the NIH

January 24, 2014
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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this blog post are the sole opinions of the author and in no way represent…

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Seven Reasons to Take the MBL Physiology Course

January 21, 2014
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When I took the MBL Physiology course in Woods Hole, MA, in 2008, I couldn’t have anticipated how powerfully it…

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Outreach—Suggestions for “Kids’ Day” in Lab

January 17, 2014
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Kids’ Day in the R. Ohi Lab at Vanderbilt University Photo credit: Sophia GayekWhen you look at elementary school students,…

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Congress Stops Running with Scissors

January 14, 2014

“Mine!” being among the favorite words of five-year-olds, their parents find themselves remonstrating, over and over “You can’t always have…

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Need a break from your science? Try citizen science!

January 10, 2014
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I conducted my first experiment in my parents’ kitchen when I was eight years old. It involved an apple, a…

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Science Highlights from ASCB 2013: Membranes, Nano-magnets, and the Errant Protein Behind a Cerebellar Disorder

January 9, 2014

Modeling membranes, nano-magnets to control cell activity, and a gain-of-function protein behind a severe progressive brainstem disorder were hot topics…

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