Search Results: SF declaration 2012

Communication + Outreach + Leadership = ASCB Ambassador

The ASCB wants to create new opportunities for members’ participation. Currently, most members participate by attending the Annual Meeting, where they present exciting new data, develop collaborations, and learn more…

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What’s it all about? CRISPR/Cas

2012, two significant steps in engineering the CRISPR/Cas system set the stage for this discovery: 1) Gasiunas et al. showed specific retargeting of Cas through changes in the encoded crRNA…

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Fred Kavli Keynote Lecture: What a tiny worm taught Cori Bargmann about the brain

…Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the European Molecular Biology Organization. In 2012, she received the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience and the following year she earned the Breakthrough Prize in…

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Kazak named 2017 Bernfield Memorial Award winner

…context of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and the chronic diseases of aging.” Kazak received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2012. His graduate work focused on the molecular mechanisms…

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Biotech has a woman problem

…were collected between 2012–2015 from the websites of biotech start-ups, and all data are included (i.e., there has been no selection). Counts include founders (for 12 companies), boards of directors…

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Four evidence-based ways universities can enhance graduate training

…that model anymore, according to a study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The majority of postdoctoral scholars do not transition into faculty careers, and graduating PhDs…

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Scientific work progresses through the communication of ideas and almost every scientist I have ever met tends to talk ad nauseum about their research or science in general. Yet as…

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The Growing Pains of the Biomedical Workforce

…identified from a mixed bag of statistics collected by the NIH, NSF, National Research Council, and others. Their major source of data was the NSF Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR),…

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Students in Greensburg, PA, GASP at the possibility of careers in science

The year is 2012. A high school student in Greensburg, PA, desperately wants to become a scientist and decides to complete a scientific research project before she graduates to gain…

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