Christina Szalinski

Jodi Nunnari elected as 2018 President of American Society for Cell Biology

May 17, 2016

Jodi Nunnari was elected by American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) members to serve as ASCB President in 2018. Nunnari,…

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Interdisciplinary Collaborative Programs Support Budding Scientists Early

May 11, 2016
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A 2015 issue of Nature reports that only about 26% of PhD students pursue tenure or tenure-track positions in academia…

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A Road Less Traveled… Exploring Career Options During the PhD

May 6, 2016
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For 12 weeks at the beginning of this year I was fortunate enough to participate in a fellowship at the…

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From Axons to Zebrafish, ASCB Outreach Grants Help Kids Learn about Science

May 4, 2016

There were 12 high school students in all, half with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), at a three-day intensive science workshop…

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Sammy the Chlamy—A superhero for the environment

May 2, 2016

Sammy the Chlamy is a single-celled alga currently starring in a 3:28 original musical video on YouTube that advances the…

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Science Advocate for a Day

April 29, 2016
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A great way to advocate for science funding is by participating in Capitol Hill days. Many groups and professional organizations…

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Ask a Scientist: An Exercise in Communication Training

April 22, 2016
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While there is a growing awareness of the necessity for increasing science communication skills for graduate students and postdocs, there…

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Water Bears Delight Crowds at Science and Engineering Festival

April 20, 2016

  I came packing water bears. There were crowds of bright-eyed families gathered outside the doors of the DC convention…

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Hongtao Yu Combines Structure and Function to Solve the Mitotic Mystery of Separase

April 19, 2016

I remember the first time I saw a movie of chromosomes aligned at metaphase in a dividing cell. I was…

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Rumors or the Wave of the Future? Who Should Climb on the Preprint Bandwagon?

April 18, 2016

    Suddenly preprints are the hot new way for biologists to share their research. Preprint servers allow researchers to…

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