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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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January 14, 2008
Category: Science culture
is coming home and flying into Seattle. I took these pictures with my phone (in Airplane Mode, of course). In the first shot, you get to see Mt. St. Helen's...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:26 PM • 3 Comments •
January 11, 2008
Category: Science culture
Yesterday, I posted a memorial for Ron Mardigian, an enthusiastic champion of science education at Bio-Rad. Today, I scanned RPM's blog and what do I see? A choir! Bio-Rad has...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:32 PM • 2 Comments •
January 10, 2008
Category: Science education
We often see memorials written about famous scientists, but we rarely see them about the people who work in the background to help people learn the science in the first...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:53 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: sequence analysis
The New England Journal of Medicine published a study yesterday showing that small changes in the DNA in the long arm of chromosome 16 are associated with autism. I met...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:00 AM • 13 Comments •
January 2, 2008
Category: Science education
When in doubt, turn to the internet. In a couple of weeks, I'm going to start teaching my first on-line course. So far, I've been preparing by: learning how to...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:19 PM • 15 Comments •
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