Alex Palazzo is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School.
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January 31, 2007
Category: Misc
A number of cells were bidirectional, in that they did not a have a peak firing rate in a preferred direction that was at least doubled that in the opposite direction, raising the possibility that apparently reverse replay events merely...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:26 PM • 1 Comments •
January 28, 2007
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:16 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Science & Society
The article is here. A snippet: For a six-month fee of $300,000 to $500,000, Dezenhall told the association's professional and scholarly publishing division, he could help -- in part by simplifying the industry's message to a few key phrases that...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:12 AM • 8 Comments •
January 27, 2007
Category: Lab Life
First the former Enron chief Jeffrey Skilling hired him, then ExxonMobil, now ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS? This ain't good. From Nature News: The consultant advised [Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society] to focus on simple messages, such as "Public access equals...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:25 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Lab Life
Yeah, it's going to happen. From Corie Lok's blog: The 69-page report - PDF, submitted [Jan 11th] to the Boston Redevelopment Authority for review, proposes some pretty big changes to the Allston landscape. Here are the highlights: -putting part of...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:24 AM • 2 Comments •
January 26, 2007
Category: Map that Campus
This is an excuse to collect your thoughts on the new project.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 4:58 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Lab Life
This week I've spoken too much (I got to pitch my work to a couple of visiting seminar speakers), but written so little, so in some cosmic way my total quota of verbal diarrhea has been met. On top of...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:53 PM • 6 Comments •
January 25, 2007
Category: Lab Life
That must be how it is. It can't be any other way. Just prove it. Hilarious, n'est ce pas?...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:13 AM • 4 Comments •
January 22, 2007
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Look at this beauty: Go kiddies! Now you can be the proud owner of a Gilbert Polarizing Microscope. This must have been inspired by Shinya Inoue! ;) For more see: A microscope is a scientific instrument. Think of it like...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:44 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Lab Life
OK I'm a cell biologist. I spend my time at a 'scope (as we microscopists like to say). And I have one thing to say to you and only one thing ... my brain is fried. Here is my theory,...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:25 PM • 8 Comments •
January 19, 2007
Category: Science & Society
Spotted in the "Elle Beauty News" section: (The only question left is ... telomerase????)...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:48 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Map that Campus
This one should have been posted Monday.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:38 AM • 5 Comments •
January 18, 2007
Category: Lab Life
Want to impress your fellow coworkers? Send your prettiest photos and micrographs to the European Molecular Biology Organization's Journal (aka EMBO Journal) and you may get your own EMBO J cover. Last year a grad student from our lab, got...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:16 AM • 0 Comments •
January 17, 2007
Category: Lab Life
It looks like many cell biologists are ditching positions where they are at the mercy of decreased NIH funding for grants. Late last year Claire Waterman-Storer told me that this was in part why she moved from the Scripps to...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 6:15 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Lab Life
A couple of weeks ago I was happy to see that Cell had launched a podcast. From my experience with Nature and Science, podcasts are a good way of keeping up-to-date with the latest papers published in these journals while...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:44 AM • 0 Comments •
January 16, 2007
Category: Misc
It's late at night I have to read a manuscript that we're reviewing for MBC, and what am I doing? Watching Little Mosque on the Prarie.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:18 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Science & Society
Coturnix has announced that the Anthology of the Best Science Blogging, 2006 is now available. Click here to get the paper back and/or PDF file from lulu.com. For more details visit A Blog Around the Clock. PS Two of my...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:32 PM • 2 Comments •
January 14, 2007
Category: Pure Biology
In 1997, 38% of essential genes in E. coli were unannotated and thus have names that begin with "y". That is, we were clusless as to what their role was. So what is the current figure?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 2:45 PM • 3 Comments •
January 13, 2007
Category: Misc
(I saw this on Abel's blog.) Get yours at the Catalog Card Generator....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:14 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Here is Bill Buford meeting the world famous butcher Dario Cecchini, his future teacher:
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:50 AM • 2 Comments •
January 12, 2007
Category: Map that Campus
This year is a special one for this week's mystery campuses (campi?) Leave your answers in the comment section....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:05 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Misc
I am the ideologue. The world is as I say. Little do you know that the universe follows the laws set down by my intellectual forefathers. It follows the rhythms of the idea that is swimming in my head. You...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:46 AM • 3 Comments •
January 10, 2007
Category: Misc
About a week ago I posted the original Powers of 10, here is the updated version:
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:41 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Pure Biology
Well the latest paper from the Reed lab (squeeking into Cell on its last issue of 2006) demonstrates that the cap is indeed promoting nuclear export of mRNA in vertebrate cells. (For more on mRNA export, click here.) This idea...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:31 AM • 2 Comments •
January 8, 2007
Category: Science & Society
From today's NY Times: Headhunters at Harvard May Put a Woman in Charge (I know it's just wild speculation.) Here's an interesting bit: There are suspicions, on the other hand, that the committee might be leaning toward the selection of...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Misc
[Start dictation] Believe it bore not this sentence was never typed by meet by a Secretary for a knee other human but by my trusty boys recognition system now this program is a meal fight and that's will make plenty...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:42 AM • 4 Comments •
January 6, 2007
Category: Pure Biology
From the latest issue of Science.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:39 AM • 1 Comments •
January 5, 2007
Category: Map that Campus
OK this week there is a theme ... (Yeah I know, campus #3 has it's name in big white letters on a rooftop ... but it looked great on Google Earth, so I included it anyway ... and it seems...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:34 AM • 15 Comments •
January 4, 2007
Category: Science & Society
It's owned by Archemix. How will it affect the developement of new aptamers?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:08 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Misc
I saw this video while surfing on Sciencesque. It gives quite a ... perspective on our day to day existence....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:27 AM • 2 Comments •
January 3, 2007
Category: Science & Society
The Wakefield scandal, the Chang scandal ... anything else guys?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:58 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Lab Life
Yestetrday we recieved an email asking us to vote on the new coffee bar at the NRB (NRB = New Research Building = No rich person has yet donated money to Harvard Medical School for this structure) NAMING THE COFFEE...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 4:27 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Pure Biology
In this day, some biologist have to move beyond the simplistic view that the cell is a bag of M&Ms. What do I mean by that? It's the idea that enzymes and organelles are free floating entities within the cell....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:19 AM • 4 Comments •
January 2, 2007
Category: Lab Life
... don't bet on it! I read far too many papers where the author claims that their favorite protein "localizes to the leading edge in migrating cells". Then they show a pretty picture like this one: The problem is that...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 5:40 PM • 3 Comments •
