This post was contributed by Dora Farkas of www.FinishYourThesis.com and is one of many posts in our career series. “The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.” - Jim Rohn, Author, Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker Do you have a difficult supervisor, or do ...
This post was contributed by Theresa Liao of the University of British Columbia. When transitioning from an academic science career path to a non-academic one, one of the biggest changes (and perhaps challenges) is the need to present yourself using a resume. Indeed, instead of ...
This post was contributed by Kurt Thorn of the Nikon Imaging Center at UCSF. A common requirement for live cell imaging experiments is the ability to follow multiple fluorescently tagged species simultaneously. To do so with fluorescent protein labels requires multiple ...
This guest blog post was contributed by Seán Mac Fhearraigh, PhD, of www.phdadvice.com. I sold out, well in part that’s what leaving academia feels like for a lot of researchers. For many years I struggled with the questions of “Will I leave academia?” and "What type of science ...
This post was contributed by Jim Woodgett. Public Library of Science (PLOS) created a stir earlier this year when it announced its data access and sharing policy. Since early March, the open access publisher has required authors to include a note as to where readers may locate ...
This post was contributed by Nikolai Braun and Keira Havens, co-founders of Revolution Bioengineering. Read their previous blog post about how they started their company here. The first transgenic plant was engineered over 30 years ago, but plant synthetic biology is still in ...
This post was contributed by Neil J. McKenna and Bert W. O’Malley. Survival of all organisms depends on efficient energy maintenance - through acquisition, storage, and utilization - and on self-propagation by reproduction. Both physiological processes are controlled by ...
Hey guys, Blugene here! As Addgene’s mascot, I’ve watched Addgene grow into the successful, internationally renowned plasmid repository that it is today. Although I wish I could take all of the credit, the success of the company is attributed to the entire Addgene family; the ...
