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What happens to graduates of high school biotech programs?
Category: Science education
Some of them work for Bayer.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:09 PM • 1 Comments •
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I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Digital World Biology).
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Got DNA sequencing problems? Who ya gonna call?
Category: Biotechnology
Why the ABRF of course! I spend a fair amount time every summer giving workshops for college and high-school teachers on genomics and bioinformatics. One of the things that always...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:30 PM • 0 Comments •
August 24, 2007
Digital Biology Friday: A helpful hint
Category: Bioinformatics
I began this series last week with a question about a DNA sequence that was published and reported to be one the first beta-lactamases to be found in Streptococcus pneumoniae....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 6:44 PM • 4 Comments •
Godzilla, tuberculosis, and XDR-TB
Category: Science education
What's the connection?(image from Newton TAB blog) I have to admit, I don't know. But, I do know where you can find out. Dr. Gerard Cangelosi, from the Seattle Biomedical...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments •
August 23, 2007
Grants for kids to study beetles
Category: Science education
Charles Darwin was so fascinated by beetles he paid people to help him build his collection. The Coleopterists Society and the Smithsonian Institute want to help kids explore the wonders...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:00 PM • 1 Comments •
August 22, 2007
Do biologists need to learn programming?
Category: Science education
I get asked this question often enough and now that's it's come up again, it seems that I might as well answer it once and for all and get it...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:16 AM • 11 Comments •
SciVee: more beta than YouTube?
Category: web resources
or maybe seminars on parade? They're calling them PubCasts, but I don't think I'll be watching them in a pub. Seriously, SciVee is kind of cute, and has lots of...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:24 AM • 6 Comments •
August 21, 2007
Is phred dead? Let's see the data
Category: sequence analysis
Calling all bases, how many are correct?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:25 AM • 6 Comments •
August 20, 2007
Careers in biotechnology, part VI. More opinions on bioinformatics in a software company
Category: Bioinformatics
Second opinions on bioinformatics careers and programming.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:28 PM • 4 Comments •
August 17, 2007
Digital Biology Friday: You make the call!
Category: sequence analysis
Developing "biological intuition" through case studies
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:53 PM • 0 Comments •
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