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Notes, thoughts, and news on synthetic biology by Christina Agapakis.
Category: iGEM
It's been a few weeks since the iGEM jamboree, a whirlwind, completely exhausting weekend of student synthetic biology projects. This tweet from Robin Sloan from the #igem2010 stream is a pretty good way to sum up the weekend: .bbpBox987719207489536...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 3:32 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: social studies
Nick pointed me to a fabulous podcast series by CBC radio called "How To Think About Science." Each episode is a long and fascinating interview with a prominent scholar of science--scientists, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians who explore how science...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 2:12 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: video
It's not just Scott Kern who thinks that science is only about tedious benchwork and that grad students should be boring robots moving small volumes of liquid around 20 hours a day for the greater good. An unscientific analysis of...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 11:42 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DNA
Thanks to the internet, you can find out your pirate name and your Jersey Shore name, and now thanks to the EMBL-EBI learning tools, you can find your protein name too! When you type your name into the box, the...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 8:59 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: announcement
The new season of Science in the News starts next week with a great schedule of science lectures by Harvard grad students free and open to the public. If you're in the Boston area, definitely check it out! Here's the...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 4:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: education
I recently found this fascinating (relatively) old review article (open access) by awesome MIT professor Natalie Kuldell about teaching synthetic biology. Synthetic biology has integrated teaching and learning with the development of the field since basically the beginning of the...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 3:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: gender
In the recent articles, blog posts, and comment threads about possible biological reasons for the continued gender disparity in tenured math and science faculty positions, the discussion seems to be divided between two groups: those who emphasize the social and...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:35 AM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: culture
Another day, another article about how women are biologically inferior to men when it comes to high-level math and science. The fact that this one comes from the New York Times Science section, a newspaper I typically respect very highly,...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 2:28 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: education
The World Science Festival starts today in New York City with tons of exciting events from BioArt to The Science of Star Trek and all sorts of great stuff in between! If you can't make it to New York there's...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 11:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: advice
I don't get nearly as many emails asking for advice as I'm sure the lovely and talented Dr. Isis does, and I'm not sure if my advice can compare in quality and sassiness to hers, but I want to address...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 2:52 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
