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A protocol can help with the tricky conversations essential to responsible research conduct, says Mary A. Allen. Either this is sloppiness or misconduct, and either way I dont think this is a lab I want to be in anymore. I was terrified as I
Postdocs considering an international move should plan early and allow plenty of time to adjust, says Atma Ivancevic. Moving to a laboratory in another state or another country is an academic tradition. Scientists move for masters and PhD
Down Syndrome is the most common chromosomal disorder, with 1 in every ~700 newborns in the U.S. affected. Down Syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21. This additional chromosome can affect development and disease
By Jacqueline WentzThis July I attended the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on the Life Sciences in Boston. It was four days long, packed with talks, poster sessions, and unnecessary amounts of coffee. At the
by April Goebl泭Attending Evolution, the premier international conference for evolutionary biology, had a big influence on my recently spawned, yet still vague, choice to pursue a career in evolutionary biology.泭 Held in Austin, Texas this
I recently attended the 2014 Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) with fellow IQ Biology student Joey Azofeifa and our advisor Robin Dowell. The conference had many
It must be said that I have had a very difficult time writing this blog-post. The reason, after a few too many cups of coffee, came clear to me:泭Science is Hard泭(and I worried if thats what I should tell my readers). Certainly there are
Studying Quantitative Genomics in ItalyBy: Nora ConnorI returned this past weekend from a conference and workshop called Quantitative Laws of Genome Evolution in Lake Como, Italy. An Italian physicist named Marco Lagomarsino created the conference,
The newly constructed structure in the National Botanical Gardens in Ireland, meant to symbolize the flow of information from DNA to RNA and proteins, contains a representation of the DNA double helix, a ribosome, and thehammerhead ribozyme.
IQ Bio Blog: Interdisciplinarity on Steroidsby: Ryan LangendorfAt my last mentoring committee meeting, after discussing the tug-of-war that the Environmental Studies and泭IQ Biology泭programs have been playing with my schedule, Dr. Brett