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  1. Management for Scientists: What Makes a Good Manager Anyway?

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    Dec. 9, 2014, 2:22 p.m.
    ... contribute more. Assuming basic needs are being met (i.e. enough pay and benefits to live on), the factors...Good relationships with clients and colleagues Sometimes this means you have to fire a good performer if...when making decisions, assignments and polices. Sometimes the boss has to be the boss and make difficult...deadlines (there’s that need for flexibility, sometimes taken to an extreme by scientists) Are highly ...
  2. Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths

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    Sept. 26, 2017, 12:12 p.m.
    ...it? how did you get there? Many of those people I met through AWIS (Association for Women in Science); ... and embedding individual diversity to get from gamete to a visibly complex - and unique - adult. My initial...
  3. A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017

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    Dec. 15, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...between neuroscience and other fields. For instance I met one researcher studying how the microbiome can affect...engineering E. coli metabolism, maybe you’ll be able to apply your knowledge of metabolism to better understand...there were also people ready to discuss their VR helmets, gait tracking technologies, and brain monitors...receptors to the brain, and probing how fatty acid metabolites affect brain function. These scientists pulled...
  4. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
    ...hint of CRISPR editing in human embryos has been met with a storm of media coverage. But the paper published...
  5. Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools

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    April 23, 2018, 2 p.m.
    ...lysosomes. Though a number of biosensors existed that met some of the criteria necessary for studying endosomes...activate the proteasome. Clift et al. tested multiple methods for TRIM-Away delivery. For small cell populations... recent Nature Communications article “SRpHi ratiometric pH biosensors for super-resolution microscopy...be photostable over a broad pH range. The four biometric probes successfully targeted endosomes under a...modules to repress or activate gene expression, sometimes incorporating chemically inducible approaches ...
  6. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    July 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Industry interviews, however, were more structured. I met with several individual and/or small groups, usually...have a theme too, which is something not inherently captured by the STAR method. I like to think of the ...stories to tell in your interview The STAR interview method is a popular way to answer behavioral interview...situation, task, action, and results. While this method seems simple, I found it hard to remember to describe...interview. Each interview is an opportunity to learn something and then apply it to the next interview. Perhaps...underdressed, but read emails from HR carefully because sometimes companies have relaxed dress codes for interviews...
  7. 5 Steps to Writing Grant Proposals for Grad Students

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    Feb. 11, 2014, 12:13 p.m.
    ...Aims section highlights each milestone that must be met in order to deem your proposal successful. Typical..., if not all, of the limitations of current methodologies. This section sets the stage for why your funded...
  8. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    June 27, 2017, 1:03 p.m.
    ...order for FRET to occur several constraints must be met. The donor and acceptor fluorophores must be compatible... determine whether two proteins are within 10 nanometers of each other, or measure the tension in the ...Nicolas. "FRET-based molecular tension microscopy." Methods 94 (2016): 33-42. PubMed PMID: 26210398. Additional...
  9. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    Jan. 30, 2018, 2:42 p.m.
    .... I had no idea this was happening even though I met with X on a weekly basis! The silence and maybe even... opportunities. I still need to check myself sometimes to make sure I am delegating well, but it does...
  10. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    July 9, 2019, 12:52 p.m.
    ...compliment the STEM curriculum. As it happened, I’d met some of the 8th grade science teachers socially and...minds, but I think many of the students learned something. Based on the initial guidelines I received from...
  11. Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School

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    Feb. 25, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...all ages, learned a lot about the dinosaurs, and met wonderful people. When I started volunteering, I ...experience taught me something about myself and my future career. If it wasn’t something I liked – well, I...through developing and leading a budding nonprofit, something I had zero experience with before founding CINSO...
  12. Transferable Skills Guide: External Collaborations

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    April 19, 2018, 1:25 p.m.
    ... collaborating with your neighboring lab, you've met interesting people at conferences and you have successfully...questions become popular. There are only so many methods and machines one team can learn so linking together...associations and specific projects where you share methods and equipment between lab groups and departments...- if you are aware of a problem or a need for something, usually someone else has realized this too. Begin... about your ideas and don’t be afraid to make something concrete happen. You may have more willing collaborators...
  13. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    May 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...Enabling Discovery Through Genomic Tools) Program and I met scientists from 21 different labs who clearly also...access to genotypic study of diverse organisms. Methods for genetic manipulation still need to be developed..., microbes, viruses, and fungi for which these methods are presently unavailable.” As stated by one of... funded labs to rapidly disseminate protocols, methods, data, and tools that result from their work. Researchers...diverse and they inhabit all habitats - even 50 meters from Old Faithful in 60 °C soils. Dendrobatidae...using Xenopus frog cell lines to develop robust methods for frog gene editing. They edit in a cell line...species monogamous. Anolis sagrei (Doug Menke) No methods were available to create targeted gene mutations...
  14. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    Nov. 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...(Spain). At this conference, mentors and mentees met and exchanged impressions of the IMP experience. ...with mentors who are working in USA and Europe, something that I would not able to do without a program ... particularly interested in breast cancer and metastasis as well as teaching and mentoring activities....
  15. Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)

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    March 7, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...requirements that need to be met for a parametric test are as follows:   Parametric test assumptions: Distribution...profiles.   Parametric tests  Statistical tests fall into two general categories: parametric and non-parametric.... In this blog we will be discussing parametric tests. Parametric tests are suitable for data sets that... If your data does not fit parametric assumptions, then a non-parametric test is a better option. Stay...data doesn’t fit the requirements above, a non-parametric test may be the way to go, which we will discuss...are statistically different. They are classic parametric tests and one of the simplest statistical tests...every pairwise comparison within your population? Sometimes this can’t be avoided, but if it can be, you can...
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