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A deep breath to kick off the BSCB-BSDB Spring Meeting 2011

Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 20 May 2011

BSCB-BSDB Spring meeting April 27 – 30, 2011 Canterbury University Since I very much enjoyed last year’s joint conference of the British Societies for Developmental Biology (BSDB) and Cell Biology ...

Recombine to get better

Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 6 September 2010

Recently a paper in Science caught my attention since its title combines the words mitotic recombination with patients and Ichthyosis. Having worked with Drosophila during my PhD and now being ...

Of White and Ancient Feathers

Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 9 August 2010

I’ve just come back from a lab retreat in a country house in Sussex, UK. The weather was good and we had our scientific sessions, ranging from discussions on Sonic ...

BSDB-BSCB Meeting Report Part III

Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 10 July 2010

Here is the final part of my meeting report on the BSDB-BSCB Spring Conference this April in Warwick. In the first part, I covered some of the talks on transcriptional ...

BSDB-BSCB Meeting Report Part II

Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 21 June 2010

As announced in my last post, here is part two of the BSDB-BSCB Spring Meeting Report. It deals with two presentations on networks of transcription factors (TFs). During development, such ...

Here are the dos and don'ts lists: In your CV and cover letter Do: Include outside experience; Be a match to the job description; Be brief, but include relevant info; Prove everything you say - give small examples in the cover letter; Be concrete; Open ending in cover letter (looking forward to hearing from you etc.); Publications at the end Don't: Too general; No cover letter; Not including relevant experience; Duplicate info; Full title of PhD thesis; Hide important skills; Ignore gaps; Include personal info; Exaggerate; Too detailed; Include irrelevant info; Hollow phrases During your interview Do: Concrete answers; Give info, but don't evaluate; Take time to think before answering; Be interactive, friendly, outgoing, self-confident; Match behaviour to position; Give background stories to CV Don't: Downplay; Focus on what you can't do

by Natascha Bushati in An Informative Career Day at The EMBO Meeting in Vienna on September 14, 2011

Oh, he had plenty! One of them was that he thinks papers will transform from being static documents to being used more as research tools, with the text and data linked to datasets and raw source data easily accessible. Partly this has already been put into practice by the EMBO journals. He also thinks that the top level journals with traditional papers will remain (with enhanced functionality), but the huge number of "lower tier" journals might be replaced by "mega" journals, where it's fast to publish - we'll see!

by Natascha Bushati in Sunday at The EMBO Meeting – (Mis)folding proteins and an entire session on blastocysts! on September 13, 2011

Peter - Thank you for your comment! I can definitely post the lists, although I'm not sure they'll make too much sense to anyone who wasn't in the workshop since we came up with them during our discussions. But I'll dig it out and post it tomorrow.

by Natascha Bushati in An Informative Career Day at The EMBO Meeting in Vienna on September 13, 2011

Thanks a lot for your comment! It's great to get this from a patient in the study. I'm very sorry if my post has upset you. I just dug out my original printout of the paper, which in the introduction states that the disease frequently leads to early death, and this is what I had cited in my post. The reason I looked for my original copy is that this statement is not anymore in the current online version! Do you know why it has been removed? It would be nice to clarify this.

by Natascha Bushati in Recombine to get better on December 9, 2010