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Posted by Joana Carvalho, on 4 September 2014
Hello everyone, Recently I got assigned with the task of designing good primers for ChIP. My supervisor advised me to use the Primer BLAST tool from NCBI together with AmplifiX ...Posted by Gary McDowell, on 20 August 2014
I previously wrote a post about the development of a 4-D X-Ray Tomography technique for imaging early Xenopus embryos. Frog embryos are opaque due to their yolky composition and this ...Posted by SAW, on 17 July 2014
“There is no such thing as a non-model organism” R. Behringer This bold statement was announced less than a week into our Embryology course and has left a lasting impression ...Posted by hmsouza, on 13 July 2014
By Henrique Marques-Souza and Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca Widely known as the country of soccer, samba and beautiful beaches, one might wonder if it is possible to perform high ...Posted by Maggie Pruitt, on 25 June 2014
Hello! I am Maggie Pruitt, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology at Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa, USA – think middle America or fields ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 7 May 2014
Seán Mac Fhearraigh, from PostPostDoc, recently asked me to write a post about my experiences outside academia. Because I don’t have a lot of experience yet (I have only been working ...Posted by Lilian Hunt, on 11 April 2014
I recently took part in the ‘I’m a scientist, get me out of here!’ outreach event. As soon as the school children found out I was a developmental geneticist and ...Posted by Anne Osterrieder, on 7 March 2014
I have been trying to pin-point when exactly I became interested in science outreach. The earliest I can think back is when we had to dissect Helix aspersa, the garden ...Posted by S Serena Ding, on 3 March 2014
I am Serena Ding, a third year PhD student, and I work at the University of Oxford’s Biochemistry Department in the United Kingdom. I am interested in the control of ...Posted by Leila T Shirai, on 21 February 2014
Hello! I’m Leila, a finishing PhD student in Patrícia Beldade’s lab at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal. We work on different topics within Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Evo-Devo, with the ...