...Synthetic Biology at the Sainsbury Laboratory, where she often feels more like an engineer than a biologist...about what motivates her research, the MoClo Kit she and Sylvestre Marillonnet share with the scientific...scientists and how they work to overcome them, and why she spends some of her time engaging with others on Twitter...gave a talk to the women’s research network here. She talked about the advantages of talking to people ...

...works on at Novartis, how she's learned to prioritize projects, and how she sets metrics for success. ...

...Science magazine, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is enjoys broad...science communication with a variety of audiences. She focuses at Science on developmental neurobiology ...development, cell, and molecular biology. Beyond that, she is also a fan of baseball, French horn, and rhubarb...variety of careers and jobs. At Science, which is published by the American Association for the Advancement...

...GPC, previously a college biology professor, how she became a grant professional. Dr. Cook served as a...writer, Deb volunteered. Through these experiences, she realized her niche as a grant consultant to faculty...that includes the social media community GrantChat. She has served in the nonprofit and government sector...and fundraising to program design and evaluation. She and her team at J. Miller & Associates have secured...path.  A part of the career path story for most established grant professionals is learning to succeed in... with clear budget narratives, logic models, established partnerships and collaborations, and commitments... panels and to review education materials for publishers. When the community orchestra needed a grant ...

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...grant and plans to use the grant to order plasmids she can use as positive controls in PCR-based cervical...HPV genes as positive controls in her PCR screens. She hopes that these screens will both identify individuals...

...Technology in 2004, she accepted a commission in the United States Air Force. She left active duty to ...his two cats. Keira Havens grew up in Hawaii where she was fascinated by flowers, bugs, and the ocean. After...

.... in Cell Biology from Harvard University, where she studied diabetes and metabolism. Melina has worked...Cambridge, MA and Sequana Therapeutics in San Diego, CA. She earned a B.S in Biology from MIT.   Kenneth Fan ...

...below, even with many resources at her disposal, she was writing all day and straight on through her designated... designated two hours for answering questions. She was able to do this because we could see the questions...thought out responses. I hung out with Joanne as she answered questions to provide moral support and to...but I can’t thank Joanne enough for all the work she put into this. 5. Reddit forums are evergreen! With...

...allow us to reliably activate essentially any gene,” she says. The technical leap from mutating and deactivating...structure to guide and improve activator design,” she said. “Before it was a little like tapping in the... of magnitude improvement in activation and knew she was on the right track. The next insight was to assemble... now. Enter the SAM pooled library In a paper published in Nature in December, Konermann and her colleagues...DNA. Nishimasu H, Ran FA, Hsu PD, Konermann S, Shehata SI, Dohmae N, Ishitani R, Zhang F, Nureki O. Cell...

...creative with them for their own uses.” Konermann said she is already aware of research groups making use of...to apply LITEs for the transformation of neurons, she offers a tip: save yourself some time by making an...cells but extends to freely moving animals, as established for conventional optogenetic tools." In total...

... - Vini describes how she balances working in the lab and working with SITN. She points to collaboration...

...bacterial infection, she shared that tweet with Jan Zheng, a UX designer that she knew. “We had actually...

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...us to fit in Joanne’s back yard this year, though she generously offered. Instead we picniced outside of...adage “many hands make light work” all the time. She was a wise lady for many reasons, but this saying...In addition to her operational responsibilities, she enjoys organizing team building events at Addgene...

...development About a year after Caitlin was hired, she was promoted to Product Development Manager and now...entire curriculum development team at eScience Labs. She still gets to write curriculum, but has taken on ...

... her outside the room and sheepishly explained my situation and asked if she had a few minutes to point...point me in the right direction for my future work. She graciously took me for coffee and spent an hour with...available. Even more valuable, however, was when she invited me to lunch for a “tweet-up” with other folks...contributed by Joe James from Binning Singletons. The sheer scale of a large conference can be intimidating....these people at the time, but I met some very accomplished scientists and some rising stars in the world...world of microbiology, some before they had even established their own labs.  Fried chicken with a side of...worth addressing. Clear expectations have been established for future participants regarding the activities...

...expert in microbial ecology but she became a member at BosLab because she wants to engineer microbes. We...

...global fashion studies. She hopes to work in marketing/PR one day. In her free time, she enjoys reading, petting...social media data, and I was given a fantastic spreadsheet template to build out a report on. I was able...upper management and building out social media spreadsheets every day of my co-op. I had to do research ...

...of genetic variants in a high throughput manner. She helped develop a method that measures the effects...site-saturation mutagenesis, and medium-throughput screening, she increased the affinity of the sensor for serotonin...

...CRISPR/Cas biology still left to answer as well, she says, and those details will continue to be a primary...others. “Those off-target effects are important,” she said. “We also really need to get a handle on how...

...Nanopore Technologies for the North America region. She is particularly interested in DNA sequencing tech...intersection of technology, software, and science. She loves to advocate for the customer and help build...

...University was so moved by our deck the lab contest that she spent a year hoarding used tip boxes for a lab supply...

...Sciences of NOVA University in Lisbon, Portugal. She leads the Glycoimmunology group based at the Research...pathological roles of human cell glycans. Accordingly, she joined efforts with the Portuguese Association for...

...Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. She recently launched a survey “Identifying Career Pathways...Pathways for PhDs in Science”, through which she collects data on the careers of science PhDs. Michael...scientists”  These comments are well correlated with published data. For example, in 2010, less than 15% of postdocs... Biology at Brandeis University, has recently published an article arguing against reducing the number...

...Virology from the University of Glasgow. She then moved to France where she worked as a post-doctoral fellow ...science led her to pursue a teaching career, and she now is a very happy scientific communication manager...injection site and connected to a laser. The laser flashes light of specific wavelengths, selectively turning... Cell Biology. New York: W. H. Freeman, 2000. Bookshelf ID: NBK21668. Matsuno-Yagi, Akemi, and Yasuo Mukohata...

...Alyssa D. Cecchetelli is a Scientist at Addgene. She received her PhD from Northeastern University and... interested in cell signaling and communication. She loves being able to help the scientific community...community share plasmids.   Additional Resources Thermofisher Protein Expression Systems Recombinant protein...

...University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore. She is particularly interested in signaling peptide maturation... maturation in neural and endocrine cells. She can be emailed at [email protected].   Additional...ml of 2X DMEM in a 50 ml sterile tube (for 60 mm dishes only 1.5 ml of each are used). This solution is...

... when I walk up to someone’s poster, and then he/she dives right into the background without an introduction...Biology PhD Candidate at the University of Arizona. She studies the interaction between Human Papillomavirus...about the relationship of your work to recently published papers or “hot topics,” so be sure to be well-...