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The Future of Research Symposium:
The Structure of the Workforce
Posted by Gary McDowell, on 25 September 2014
This is the second of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each of these posts will discuss a topic ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 10 September 2014
Last month I was lucky enough to attend the Xenopus meeting, which took place at the Asilomar conference grounds, close to Monterey, California. This meeting was fantastic, combining great science with a great venue. ...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 ...